Technology

59312 readers

4597 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

-1

The Integration of Hardware, Software and Services (mudkip.me)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

1 comments fedilink hide all child comments

An unpopular opinion that my past self would strongly disagree with, and perhaps my future self might too.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 months ago

Eeh, I think you're rose-colored-glasses-ing the Steam/Steamdeck thing.

That's absolutely a near-monopoly using their near-monopoly money to make a platform, for a service, to sell you software.

Just because they're more friendly appearing, doesn't mean they're any less interested in lock-in and revenue generation from the lock-in on the hardware that's running their platform.

And just to veer this off before a WELL AKSHULLY shows up: you can run arbitrary software on the Steamdeck, yes. You can also do that on Apple hardware, or in Windows or whatever, and that doesn't invalidate their general business model of trying to be the trifecta.