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You can't call it a PC if you can't install whatever the fuck you want on it.
That's a weird definition, and I want to agree with it, but my iPhone is my personal computer... and while I can install "whatever the fuck" I want on it, I should specify that I don't want to install anything that isn't in the Play Store. iPhone has one of the best emulator apps, in that it has Google Drive sync. So I can uninstall this app (it's called Delta), reinstall it, log into Google, and bam, all my games and settings and save games are downloaded. That's awesome. Shame they don't make it compatible with computers (even Macs). I suppose I wouldn't mind being able to torrent on my phone, but I've never needed to do so.
PC just stands for personal computer. You can call it a PC if it's a personal computing device. You don't have to like how the software works. You might prefer Windows to Mac or Linux to Windows, but it doesn't make someone else's PC less of a PC because it's not the brand, because it doesn't run the software yours does. That's not how definitions work.
They never said it would be an open PC.
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.
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?
implies a whole lot more than
Don't be disingenuous.
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?
Okay we get you are 14.