On: Microsoft Statement in Support of Epic [pdf]

[api]

I have always seen iOS devices as consoles, or at least closer to consoles than PCs. Anything with a locked App Store and a locked boot loader is a console by definition. MacOS is a general purpose computer OS.

Considered as a console iOS is actually more open and capable than most.

[emsy → api]

A console that hosts an app to fight a global pandemic, is used for payment, flight tickets, banking, web browsing (for some people it's their only access to the internet), navigation, taking photos, calling an ambulance. Other than web browsing, none of the things I listed is done on gaming consoles.

[ctvo → api]

You should let Apple in on that definition so they’ll stop marketing and selling the iPad as a general computing device.

[pier25 → ctvo]

Exactly. How many times has Apple said the iPad is a laptop replacement?

[api → pier25]

It is for a subset of the market that only uses the web and a few apps. Otherwise, no, and Apple knows it which is why they are sticking their ARM silicon in Macs and continuing to evolve MacOS.

[anoncake → api]

That is not a subset. Running programs is what computers are for.

[factorialboy → api]

> Considered as a console

But it's not just a console.

[api → factorialboy]

Locked boot loader, locked App Store. It’s a console.