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Re:Apple Disabling 'Sign in with Apple' for Epic Games on Se... by asddubs on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @03:24PM (#24424812)
I think companies would adapt. And the 3ds has novel enough hardware that you couldn't just replace it with a phone/laptop/whatever. Consoles could also still work out exclusivity deals with publishers, and have a marketplace that is screened, they'd just also need a way to sideload apps.
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Re:Apple Disabling 'Sign in with Apple' for Epic Games on Se... by ribosometronome on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @04:07PM (#24425338)
Consoles that have had easy access to that have historically not done well.
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Re:Apple Disabling 'Sign in with Apple' for Epic Games on Se... by asddubs on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @04:28PM (#24425567)
doesn't the xbox have a way to sideload apps?
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Re:Apple Disabling 'Sign in with Apple' for Epic Games on Se... by pjmlp on Thursday September 10, 2020 @08:14AM (#24431538)
It allows to sideload UWP apps, however that just basically means you are running WinRT in a lightweight version of Windows on XBox hypervisor.

This is not how XBox games developed with XDK are actually developed and they can see all the hardware, instead of being into a UWP sandbox.

It is more to cater to indie devs as means to get something into the XBox similar to XNA used to allow, it is not meant for proper XBox games as such.

Also it hasn't been updated for a while.

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Re:Apple Disabling 'Sign in with Apple' for Epic Games on Se... by ribosometronome on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @06:09PM (#24426498)
Xbox's Dev Mode is a bit complicated and limits a lot of functionality of the console. I think there's a good argument that it's actually easier and less limiting to side load an app using Cydia Impactor, Xcode or AltStore with an iPhone.
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Re:Apple Disabling 'Sign in with Apple' for Epic Games on Se... by anoncake on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @06:50PM (#24426815)
Against locked-down ones. Which is why those need to be banned.
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