Comment by BlueTemplar
1 month ago
I'm willing to pretend that game consoles aren't general purpose computers –
(though not so much with Xbox any more due to the way how Microsoft is trying to bridge the gap with Windows)
− but I'm not willing to pretend that for the very personal computers that smartphones are.
Windows Phone was also a walled garden.
As was Windows RT on the original Surface tablet.
Nobody is forced to buy into a walled garden.
In those examples, nobody did.