Apple found in breach of EU competition rules

Re:Apple found in breach of EU competition rules by talldayo on Monday June 24, 2024 @05:13PM (#40780869)

> none of the big three consoles allow you to install anything you want on them.

The Xbox kinda does: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/xbox-apps/devk...

And while unofficial, the Nintendo Switch has an exploit chain that lets you run native apps or mainline Linux/Android with Nvidia's Tegra drivers: https://github.com/CTCaer/hekate https://github.com/Atmosphere-NX/Atmosphere

So that's two of the big three consoles that technically do let you install anything you want.

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Re:Apple found in breach of EU competition rules by I-M-S on Monday June 24, 2024 @05:49PM (#40781230)

Saying Nintendo are tolerant of users doing anything on their hardware the company doesn't approve of is stretching the truth beyond recognition.

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Re:Apple found in breach of EU competition rules by talldayo on Monday June 24, 2024 @05:52PM (#40781273)

Sure, but that being said the 3DS, Wii, Wii U and Nintendo Switch all have enormous homebrew communities. It's nowhere near Sony's OtherOS levels of support, but the board does have functioning CPU/GPU drivers and can run pretty much "anything" you'd expect from an Aarch64 Linux target.

It's more of a technical nuance in the Switch's case, but homebrew on Nintendo consoles is a time-honored tradition.

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Re:Apple found in breach of EU competition rules by farmerbb on Monday June 24, 2024 @06:05PM (#40781462)

Last I checked you could only exploit Switches manufactured in the first couple years of its lifespan without going the hardware mod route.

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