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All these mental gymnastics to wring consoles out of the arguments against phones.. seriously what the fuck

Consoles run more "commodity hardware" than phones, like CPUs and GPUs and standard ports etc.

Rohansi
> Consoles run more "commodity hardware" than phones, like CPUs and GPUs and standard ports etc.

Not really. They share CPU/GPU architecture but there are significant differences vs. what you can buy for a PC. For example, the latest PlayStation and Xbox use unified GDDR memory and commodity CPUs all use (LP)DDR.

However, you can buy systems that use the same (or similar) chips as phones these days. Snapdragon, Apple Silicon, SBCs?

josephg
My point is the argument against apples monopolistic practices isn’t a technical argument. It’s a legal / social one.

For what it’s worth, I agree with the argument that if I buy a computer it should let me run arbitrary code. But there’s no laws against that. There are laws about monopolies. I see that as a much stronger way to attack Apple over their behaviour here.

Razengan OP
There are 2 major phone ecosystems (Android manufacturers count as Android)

There are 3 console ecosystems.

Such difference. wow

josephg
Whoosh. You have completely missed my point.
Razengan OP
None of your shit made sense.

If phones should be "opened" so should consoles, 30 years ago.

Whatever shit you say to excuse consoles from it those same arguments can apply to phones too.

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