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The problem is that you are comparing a device sold to play games to a general purpose device (music, videos, games, banking, productivity, healthcare, phone, m
by Orphis 5y ago
The problem is that you are comparing a device sold to play games to a general purpose device (music, videos, games, banking, productivity, healthcare, phone, modem...).
While consumers generally don't have too many expectations from being able to do much more on a game console (though that is changing on the XBox), people expect a LOT more from their minicomputer in a phone shape. Hampering control on that device is detrimental to the consumer who paid already a LOT for that device.
- simonh 5y agoI don’t see why being able to run different types of software should change the legal situation.
- bradknowles 5y agoWhat, you don’t watch movies on your game device? You don’t surf the web? You don’t connect to social media? Because all the game devices I’ve seen lately have been much more capable as universal devices than most desktop computers from previous decades.