Gaming consoles are not general-purpose computers they are specialized for gaming but good point.

I was looking for example of general-purpose computer being locked down by OS creator.

Chromebook in the early days? I’m not sure if it’s open even now (without dual booting Linux).

> Gaming consoles are not general-purpose computers they are specialized for gaming

One could say that mobile devices are not general-purpose computers, they are specialized for casual content creation and consumption.

Google Play has over 30 categories for applications: https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ...

Appstore has over 20 categories for applications: https://developer.apple.com/app-store/categories/

Categories range from Books, Medical, Business, Finance, Music, Photo & Video, Health & Fitness, Entertainment, Shopping, Productivity to Games. And the list goes on and on.

What are gaming consoles used for? Gaming. Maybe you can create apps to do something else but it wasn't meant to be general purpose.

Does the number of app categories matter? They’re all apps, meant for casual content creation and consumption. Consoles have a number of game categories too.

> What are gaming consoles used for? Gaming.

PS3 has been used for multi core computing until Sony blocked it. Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3_cluster

> it wasn't meant to be general purpose

I’m sure Apple would say the same about the iPhone.