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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.




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