• Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe
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    1 month ago

    and while I can install “whatever the fuck” I want on it,

    Um, no, you can’t.

    Try to install an older version of any iOS game. It can’t be done, even using Testpilot.

    Android has orders of magnitude more flexibility on this, and it is still far more limited than a PC running even Windows. Now let’s consider running VM’s on Windows or Linux, and we’re now looking at even more apps.

    For example, I’m running a 2013 version of an app that’s incompatible with Win11. It’s on a Win7 VM in VMware on my laptop, using Unity mode so it appears like any other app.

    iOS can’t do anything like this, Android can run VMs though it’s not easy.

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      1 month ago

      Who are you that you think you know more about what I want than I do? I just said there is nothing I want to install that I can’t install.

      What older iOS game are you so sure I want an older version of?

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        1 month ago

        Whatever the fuck I want

        implies a whole lot more than

        It runs what I need

        Don’t be disingenuous.

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          1 month ago

          I didn’t move any goalposts, though. I stated from the first comment that while I accept there are limitations, I have never personally needed anything outside those limitations.

          You stated I did.

          So either put up or shut up. What do you know about what I need that I don’t? And why do you think you are the supreme arbiter of what everyone else needs?