• thehatfox@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    If there is going be insistence on platforms being open there shouldn’t be these distinctions.

    All of these devices are capable of general purpose computing at a hardware level, phones, tablets, PCs, headsets are now very similar and generalised in that regard. I don’t see why a phone platform should be forced to be open while a games console gets to remain closed, when there is now only a hair’s breadth separating an Xbox from a Windows PC.

    • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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      9 hours ago

      Apple should add “console” into their branding to solve all their problems.

      The all new iPhone 17+ Console.

      There isn’t any significant difference between a Switch and an iPhone