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Gaming is unimportant. General-purpose computing is gradually being replaced by locked-down phones and tablets, and that's much more concerning.
by bluescrn 5y ago
Gaming is unimportant.
General-purpose computing is gradually being replaced by locked-down phones and tablets, and that's much more concerning.
- Google234 5y agoGeneral-purpose computing Is bigger than ever. Record PC and component sales and more open source software than ever.
- bogwog 5y agoSony/Microsoft/Nintendo get to avoid competition because games aren't important? I don't like that argument. At the end of the day, it's a company telling a consumer what they can or can't do with their own property. Sony saying you can't buy a game from anyone else is just anti-competitive BS. It isn't fair to consumers, and it isn't fair to developers. Hopefully the court rules in favor of Epic, and this case is used as precedent to go against the game console monopolies next. Also, for what it's worth, the "real" reason why game consoles aren't allowed to be jailbroken under DMCA rules (whereas phones, computers, and other devices are) is because, currently, most people only want to do it to commit piracy. Of course, that's because there are no other legitimate software vendors for that hardware. It's a chicken and egg problem.