3 ms·
Why? What makes phones general purpose that wouldn’t apply to an xbox?
by l33t233372 3y ago
Why? What makes phones general purpose that wouldn’t apply to an xbox?
- kyleee 3y agoPhones are many many people’s primary computing device these days (they have no laptop or desktop). And such a general computing device is increasingly required for various parts of life (school, interacting Witt various government agencies, business, all sorts of leisure uses (social media, etc) that are core to a person’s identity)
- izacus 3y agoThe fact that they're used for general purpose use-cases and the fact that they're hosting applications for a wide set of other businesses which are threatened by possible anti-competitive actions of platform holders. Xbox is a device that hosts video games and media services. A phone is hosting all those and hundreds of other use-cases, from banking and financial services, to hardware access via IoT interfaces, car integration and myriad of other applications.