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Can you do in app payments via any of the consoles, Roku, etc without the platform owner getting a cut?

• oblio 4y ago
  No, and that's not any better. Plus, are we actually comparing general use mobile computing devices to niche and mostly fixed computing devices?
  • scarface74 4y ago
    So a “cell phone” is a “general purpose computing device” but a console isn’t?
    • oblio 4y ago
      They're both Turing machines, if that's what you're getting at. In practice, no, a console is not a general purpose computing machine. On iOS, by design, you can install almost any kind of application even without jailbreaking it. Which people do, you can have Excel and Maps and IDEs and whatever. Consoles, by design, do not allow that. It's almost strictly meant for games and media. And again. I don't care. Both types of walled gardens should be abolished.
      • scarface74 4y ago
        There is nothing about consoles that make them incapable of installing any type of software. They support keyboards and mice.