“Lmao. The AI note was to head off the silly commenter that was sure to show up and make the accusation. It was not really directed at you.” My guess was correct then, so this is fine!

While we do differ on our gaming wants and needs, I feel this is fine as well. As not everyone is uniform in what they want and what they need from a gaming platform.

Personally, I appreciate the ease of consoles, except when it comes to troubleshooting because I can’t change how a game behaves with launch commands or other toggles like on PC. There are times when PC is riddled with issues, don’t get me wrong, but I often can solve them within a matter of perhaps an hour or a few at worst. While I do expect to get a product that just works and doesn’t demand much of my time to make it work; I do appreciate the ability to tinker and figure out how to make something work. Naturally, this is the major difference between us, that is quite alright! The Steam Machine is going to be a marriage of both console and PC worlds because it can be used in either context and just work…Given it has that massive library of games at the ready. Oof, I am so keen about this thing…

While I do love my Series S because it’s a little guy that can perform pretty well…I think Microsoft’s near perfect parity demand between the Series S and Series X was an unhinged ask. Microsoft’s Xbox division deliberately underpowered the Series S, in order to sell it at a price that many could afford. I feel like they should’ve released a console that was more mid-high range, with an optimized as fuck slim version of Windows for Xbox. One that would have enough resources and power to run games with a bit of visual glam and smooth performance, however, Microsoft executives were too busy huffing their own farts to consider this and they fucked their console line instead. As they tend to do, fumble the ball and bag in numerous instances, when making literally any other decision would’ve won them a bit of success. I will say that Sony made killer moves with their consoles, earning new customers+keeping the existing ones because of Xbox Division’s sanctioned blunder.

I think Apple mostly gets the “it will just work” down; however, because they control the software and hardware…It gets a bit scary in my opinion. As major bugs will get overlooked or ignored despite getting a lot of feedback from security types. Up until last year, Apple had a terrifying vulnerability that if malicious actors would’ve exploited, could’ve compromised a ton of phones for just some medium effort leveraging. Through Apple’s podcast app and how it interfaced with the web, I cannot put into words how terrifying this truly is. When Apple has bugs, they have the nuclear option kind of bugs in their software.

This is why I am team Android, at the end of the day many people looking at the same code will discover and upstream patches. There is an incentive for Android OEMs to do this, for Apple, in most cases they cannot be arsed until a suitably large uproar happens. As people will buy their stuff if they are balls deep in that ecosystem. For the most part, that works for them, and I don’t object to people willingly choosing that tech fate. I do disparage Apple because they aren’t responsible when it counts to fix long standing issues that could harm their user base at a moment’s notice.

I do agree with the “tech should work for me” approach; we just seek different things in our gizmos and gadgets, thankfully either of our approaches are quite valid! Also, that the tech market can cater to either of these approaches.