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scarface74 on Feb 4, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple will charge 27% commission for alternative p...

Apple sells a device that is called an iPhone how is it any more general purpose than a powerful computer sold as a game console?

Heck most of Apple’s App Store revenue comes from games.

Apocryphon on Feb 4, 2022 [–]

Even from the beginning it was more than a simple phone. It was at least a phone, an iPod, and a breakthrough internet communications device.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnrJzXM7a6o

scarface74 on Feb 4, 2022 | [–]

But it didn’t have an App Store….

You could always “sideload music”

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