EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals

Re:EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals by labcomputer on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @07:31PM (#37667359)

The very same site where a significant number of users argue, completely seriously, that game consoles are not general purpose computing devices and, as such, should not be subject to the same rules.

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Re:EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals by grishka on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @08:39PM (#37668089)

I'd define the "general purposeness" by the public availability of an official SDK. Video game consoles are strange because there's no agreement whether they are appliances or not. Most of them also have unofficial public SDKs. Heck, some people would even say that routers are general purpose computing devices and install a custom OS on theirs.

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Re:EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals by wpm on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @10:52AM (#37675491)

Apple's SDKs are "public" in the sense that you can go read them, but if you want to ship anything with them on iOS, you need a paid developer account, right? I wouldn't call that public.

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