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Re:Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store by jchw on Thursday August 13, 2020 @04:40PM (#24148688)
What its marketed as and who it is aimed at. Nobody ever bought a nintendo NES to use as a personal computing device, it wasn’t that they looked at the specsheet and it had a 6502. There were in fact PCs with 6502s and powerpcs as well. In any case, I still think video game consoles are stupid but they at least have some incentives to do a walled garden type thing (anti-cheat, anti-piracy) and lacking general code execution they actually stand a reasonable chance of accomplishing that (versus iOS where I am currently typing on a jailbroken device.)
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Re:Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store by kalleboo on Thursday August 13, 2020 @10:18PM (#24152452)
> Nobody ever bought a nintendo NES to use as a personal computing device

Although interestingly, the Japanese console makers have continually tried to push the computer/development angle.

When the NES was released in Japan before the US, it was branded the "Family Computer" and you could get a keyboard and a version of BASIC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_BASIC

Sony has had multiple attempts, with a consumer homebrew dev kit for the PS1 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_Yaroze ), and Linux for the PS2 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_for_PlayStation_2 ) and later PS3.

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Re:Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store by jchw on Thursday August 13, 2020 @10:59PM (#24152750)
Yep, those are pretty cool and also make it more sad that video game consoles continue to go down this road of lockdown.

Of course Sony also had OtherOS on PS3. It's a bit sad it ended the way that it did.

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Re:Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store by m4rtink on Thursday August 13, 2020 @09:47PM (#24152261)
You could trade stocks and bet on horses using the NES/Famicom hardware in Japan. There was a modem acessory and a cartridge with the corresponding software: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Computer_Network_Syst...
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Re:Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store by viro on Thursday August 13, 2020 @04:48PM (#24148850)
So the operating system?
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Re:Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store by ClumsyPilot on Thursday August 13, 2020 @11:02PM (#24152773)
yeah, the most important piece of software on the planet.
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Re:Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store by jchw on Thursday August 13, 2020 @04:49PM (#24148875)
I said

>What its marketed as and who it is aimed at.

I am not sure I can make my position any clearer than that. It's not an item in a spec sheet. It's what you're claiming to be selling.

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