> Why shouldn’t I be able to plug a kb into my console and browse the web, or write an email or a word document, or do my taxes? Do you want to know the truth?

> Why shouldn’t I be able to plug a kb into my console and browse the web, or write an email or a word document, or do my taxes? Do you want to know the truth? The cold, hard, glaring truth? It's because Night Trap and DOOM existed. The ESRB got made and now nobody can ship games without the direct and glaring oversight of an entertainment commission. It sounds stupid because it is, but it also has bipartisan support so everyone can say "think of the kids!" and stop 17-year-olds from renting GTA for their PS2. Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony love this. These are regulations they can exploit, because they more or less give them a legal imperative to root out bad actors and create the sort of walled garden Apple struggles to justify. Does it make sense? No. You should be able to legally unlock your Nintendo Switch bootloader, Nintendo be damned. But Nintendo is perceived to exist in regulated competition with their peers; Apple is running a free-for-all where everyone but them loses.