Sony and Nintendo are in competition. But are they really?

[Mnementh]

TeachMeHisty said:

Mnementh said:

(...)  In that sense the term includes tablets, phones and video game consoles, all computers used as a personal device. (...)

Wouldnt that effectively mean that there is no such thing as a "pc-handheld", because gameing systems - the way they are currently build - are PCs from the start?

To this day I was mainly under the assumption that PC or personal computer simply refered to system, which the enduser has (almost) full control over its design (CPU, GPU, RAm type an amount, etc.) and that personal computer comes from personalized computer

At the time the term PC was used this way no tablets and phones existed, so it was a bit cheeky from me to term it this way. The main time it was used as IBM-compatible PC, but the IBM part was dropped and the compatibility is nowadays pretty vague. But mostly it now is used for Computers that derived in their design from the IBM-compatibles. Although as I said Macs are now often also refered as PC. So, the term is very vague and undefined.

The control thing - it was not the intention as the term was coined. It is coincidental. But it is a fair observation that most things called PCs are under your control, although it is more and more debatable. Secure Boot puts a lot of that control in Microsofts hand. In theory they could lock down your computer and totally ban software with secure boot. But they don't because of fear of user backlash.