alt Hacker NewsAll these mental gymnastics to wring consoles out of the arguments against phones.. seriously what the fuck
Consoles run more "commodity hardware" than phones, like CPUs and GPUs and standard ports etc.
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Rohansi • last Saturday at 1:07 AM
> Consoles run more "commodity hardware" than phones, like CPUs and GPUs and standard ports etc.
Not really. They share CPU/GPU architecture but there are significant differences vs. what you can buy for a PC. For example, the latest PlayStation and Xbox use unified GDDR memory and commodity CPUs all use (LP)DDR.
However, you can buy systems that use the same (or similar) chips as phones these days. Snapdragon, Apple Silicon, SBCs?
My point is the argument against apples monopolistic practices isn’t a technical argument. It’s a legal / social one.
For what it’s worth, I agree with the argument that if I buy a computer it should let me run arbitrary code. But there’s no laws against that. There are laws about monopolies. I see that as a much stronger way to attack Apple over their behaviour here.