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Well it's what it is up front. A games consoles plays games and streams some video.

A mobile phone is a camera, gps, web browser, telephone, messaging, food delivery, music listening, video watching, taxi calling, banking tool etc etc etc device.

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> A mobile phone is a camera, gps, web browser, telephone, messaging, food delivery, music listening, video watching, taxi calling, banking tool etc etc etc device.

I'm sure you know that you can do most if not all of those also from a game console. Sure, it doesn't always have a camera or GPS but that's true for many other general purpose computers as well. You can absolutely listen to music or watch videos or do online banking from an XBox or Playstation.

You're not seriously trying to equate Xbox and iPhone usage in the same category

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