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So you are also sick of people defending sony, nintendo and microsoft? They have the exact same policies for their consoles.

• schwartzworld 6y ago
  I'm not the OP, but I never hear people staunchly defend any of those companies the way they do apple. Apple fans seem to accept and defend every questionable decision the company makes. no headphone jack? that's a feature! no unauthorized software? that's a feature! spontaneously combusts in your pocket? you just don't understand the reason they did that. it's a feature!
  • msh 6y ago
    the combustion in your pocket seems to be a samsung feature ;) I guess its kind a the same tribalism with sports teams and other things people are fans of. I am pretty certain the no unauthorized software is a good business decision for them, but it also helps a lot of end user security.
• alexvoda 6y ago
  As long as gaming consoles allow phisical distribution of software on discs or cartridges the companies can claim that an alternative exists. It is of course still unfair (phisical is much more expensive) that they do not allow digital sideloading but as long as the phisical option exits, they have an excuse. Apple has no excuse. They are leveraging their monopoly on iOS devices (a natural monopoly, they made and own iOS, it's not the monopoly that's the issue) to extract revenue in a different area (transaction processing).
  • msh 6y ago
    Thats not a alternative nor siddeloading. The discs needs to be digitally signed by the console created to be used. And still requires payment to the console manufacuterer.