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Re:Apple found in breach of EU competition rules by burnerthrow008 on Monday June 24, 2024 @12:10PM (#40777820)
> just about no one on the planet looks at the marketing for a PlayStation 5 and expects to be able to use it to file their taxes

Ah, this old chestnut of circular reasoning. It's not a general purpose computer because people think it isn't, so they don't use it as one because it's not a general purpose computer.

> The consumer is pretty well aware of what they're getting.

Is the consumer not well aware that iOS is a walled garden?

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Re:Apple found in breach of EU competition rules by zeta0134 on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @09:28AM (#40788375)
I should clarify that I don't personally hold this particular chestnut. A computer is a computer, and I'll remove the locks and run whatever software I please. I make homebrew games as a hobby, after all.

But regulators don't tend to write laws based on the actual tech, as much as how it gets used. That's the disconnect, but it still helps to try to understand the other point of view.

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