Would Mac gaming being in a better shape be a good thing for the video game industry or is it better to let Apple do what they're doing right now?
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Would Mac gaming being in a better shape be a good thing for the video game industry or is it better to let Apple do what they're doing right now...
the world as a whole would have been better if mac computers fizzled out before they could make the first iphone.
Better for the industry's profit, but worse for both the pockets of everyone who buys PC games and the culture at large.
Apple consumers flooding vidya spaces would be equivalent to /r/the_donald being shut down and /misc/ being flooded with boomers, just on a larger scale.
>closed ecosystems
>proprietary everything
>dude you don't NEED floppy support / more than 1 mouse button / FLASH support / USB ports / .... !!
Take a wild guess.
Remember: HALO begun as a Mac game project. It kinda makes sense.
When halo was on Mac, they'd have playtesters ask to stop playing because it sucked.
>when the pc itself has drm
They're not quite there yet, but they're getting close. Especially considering how moronic their logic for mandatory notarization is (even if it is ad-hoc... for now).
https://twitter.com/flibitijibibo/status/1311389786016493572
In my opinion, it is only a matter of time until they require you to notarize software with an Apple dev account, for which developers have to pay $100 per year.
Nah, it would be better to make Metal open-source.
the israelites are getting ready to flip the ~~*remote attestation*~~ switch on. when they activate ~~*hardware-backed attestation*~~ it will be impossible to crack and PCs will turn into consoles for good.
>235 million people
Damn, sometimes I forget how many more people there are now.
>Mac gaming
>video game industry
Apple is a big part of the video game industry. They make a lot of money out of App Store's 30% cut, and they have been funding a lot of games, and macOS ARM64 ports lately. The latter mostly for Japanese games, though.
Mac morons can't talk without using their hands
>t.Maddox
They should use Vulkan.
OSX Chad here. Windows is dogshit because its UI is trash, it’s filled with spyware, ads, and has a million little shitty things that will annoy you forever. They’re also adding AI buttons everywhere now and you can’t remove them. You can’t even play Solitaire anymore without getting swarmed by software bloat and video ads.
https://ntdev.blog/2021/02/06/state-of-the-windows-how-many-layers-of-ui-inconsistencies-are-in-windows-10/
Don't care, Windows never at any point forbid you from accessing the software you have on your PC if Microsoft servers shat the bed like macOS did wihen Apple's servers were slow.
https://ntdev.blog/2023/01/01/state-of-the-windows-how-many-layers-of-ui-inconsistencies-are-in-windows-11/comment-page-1/
The UI stays familiar because if they change too much it pisses people off. And many of these things they created in the first place.
Didn’t stop them from butchering solitaire
Apple is like if IBM still made computers. There will always be a niche market of people too stupid to buy anything else, but you're always going to get vastly more mileage out of streaming the game from a device that can actually run games.
Call me when I can just throw the OS on whatever hardware I want.
macOS's level of polish only happens because it's optimized to run on very specific hardware, hardware that Apple gets to choose. If you wanted macOS to run on more hardware, that polish would be gone.
Worst UI change was the right click menu. No one trying hold shift down all the fricking time or click pictures like some kind of touch screen phone. Thankfully the old version is still there.
>crapple cuckade
kill it with fire
LOL.
Meant for
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Now that they've long since "Mac-ified" windows so that a dimwit can just talk at it and make programs run, what's the point of Macs anymore?
Brand loyalty? Loyalty to what? A very overpriced product promoted posthumously by a megalomaniacal narcissist? That 40 year old ad implies Macintosh was easier to use and for a while that was true (especially when DOS was standard) but those days are long behind us. Did they just use marketing to convince an entire generation it was an act of artistic rebellion to purchase one pile of Taiwanese chips and wires over another?
DOS was such hot garbage
>abort, retry, fail. no need for cleanup. program state be damned
>no pager with scrollback buffer
>god-awful shell scripting language. e.g. you need to double-escape variables
>god-awful filesystem. 8.3 names
>text editor sucked balls compared to stuff like vi