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Re:Project Starline: Feel like you're there, together by bsanr2 on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @06:47PM (#27202262)
To say that a single company's products being used by even a single digit percentage of the world population doesn't meet the requirements to ve considered "widely available" is a stretch.

In any case, you said "important," not "widely available," and yes, Nintendo's products are hugely important. Many of today's technological advancements can be traced back to their proving that a given use case for a primitive version of a given technology was viable.

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Re:Project Starline: Feel like you're there, together by dpratt71 on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @08:04PM (#27202951)
Whether it's a single company (or product) or multiple is beside the point. If a technology is only available to (say) 1% of the population, I don't think that qualifies as being widely available.

I will also note that my original comment was in response to someone who is "more interested in tech for the other 95%".

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