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Re:Apple found in breach of EU competition rules by paulddraper on Monday June 24, 2024 @05:24PM (#40780973)
XBox is/was so open it spawned a very popular media platform: XBMC (XBox Media Center)
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Re:Apple found in breach of EU competition rules by ErneX on Monday June 24, 2024 @05:51PM (#40781250)
That required circumventing its protections via a hardware or software mod.
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Re:Apple found in breach of EU competition rules by theshrike79 on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @02:54AM (#40785308)
"Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch! I was there when it was written."

I used Xbox Media Player on my modded Xbox, it later turned into XBMC and to Kodi much later.

It was hardly "open". The console had to be modded to enable any of it.

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