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As long as they don't start with Apple.

They can first force Sony to let us run anything on the PS5, then go for Nintendo and Switch, after that Microsoft and the Xbox.

All three are more generic computers than any Apple mobile device and are purely walled gardens where we can't run whatever we want.



> As long as they don't start with Apple.

I guess it's just as good as any other of the vendors you mentioned. I don't see why we shouldn't start with Apple but at the same time I don't think anyone opposes to the other companies being forced too.

At least I know I would like to run personalized software on my Switch without having to rooting it by other 'ways'.


> but at the same time I don't think anyone opposes to the other companies being forced too.

How can you say that with a straight face? The EU opposes other companies being forced to! That’s why they wrote their DMA the way they did!


>>All three are more generic computers than any Apple mobile device and are purely walled gardens where we can't run whatever we want.

No they aren't. Game consoles are designed for a singular purpose. Apple's mobile devices are not singular purpose. I guess their watch might be? but that's the closest you'd get IMO.


The Xbox, Switch and PS5 play games, but they all allow you to install apps, stream movies, buy movies, stream audio and join fitness classes.

They also have chat apps and you can stream your own games to places like twitch for others to watch. And through simple steps they all have browsers you can load web pages on.

If a mobile phone is a computer, a game console is a computer.


Before I bought our first Apple TV, my Xbox One was dutifully fulfilling its role as our household's primary YouTube and Netflix streaming machine. It wasn't playing video games at all.


So if Apple limited what you can do with an iPhone even more, then you’d be ok with the walled garden?


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Downvoting to express disagreement has always been fine on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171




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