michelb76

red oak said:

The drama queens over at Basecamp.  Everyone I know who used Basecamp moved to Slack.  Maybe they are bitter on losing out on a billion $ payout  

Also, I looked up Hey Mail in the App Store.   Minimal downloads and traction.  Looks like a failed product.  FWIW 

This is just such an ignorant and low-effort argument. They seem to be doing just fine with all of their apps, even their old version of Basecamp. If you moved from Basecamp to Slack I don't know what to tell you, Basecamp is a totally different product.
Regardless, if they suddenly start applying rules, apply them to Google, Microsoft, Uber, Walmart, etc. But they don't. Apple fully deserves antitrust inquiries with this behaviour.

chasm said:

Wow, did this go off-track in the comments!

Here’s a suggestion for Hey: Apple really hates it when obscure developers run to the press with their complaints instead of procedurally moving their concerns up the chain.

To me it does sound like some kind of misunderstanding, or maybe I don’t know how Hey’s pricing model works because I have zero interest in Hey’s products (or indeed, all third-party email and calendar products).

Try going through developer relations and maybe the matter will get resolved faster.

You must not be a developer with decent apps in the store. If you don't go public you get the run-around because Apple doesn't give two shits about you if you are not Uber, Google or any of the other big firms they make exceptions for. Apple should instead crack down on the thousands of extremely obvious shady apps with in-app purchases, but no, they won't. This is actively discouraging developers from developing for iOS just because Apple wants a few pennies. This behaviour is not even in the interest of the user.

hypoluxa said:

Toortog said:

From hardware standpoint Apple has a long way to go when it comes to gaming.   Sure Apple is putting lots of GPUs in their silicon, but Apple's GPU are puny compared to the GPU cards PC gamers are using.   Apple has a long way to go before serious gamers are going to take them seriously.

Well the M3 GPU chip seems to give the GTX 4090 a run in some tested instances I believe I saw. So, they are on their way...

Not even close, and that test was only on LLM computation, which is usually highly optimised for Nvidia cards, like most games. Apple scores fairly well there, but the 4090 still blows it out of the water. But Apple doesn't need to be in the top spot for gaming, 3rd or 4th would already be quite the accomplishment when they get there.

But with gaming, you need development software, and those parties have left Apple a long time ago. Maybe they will return now that there is a somewhat decent GPU on Macs. Time will tell. Also, while Apple has Metal, most games are made with DirectX or Vulkan, and while there are translation layers for that, it's not great, and only a piece of the total puzzle. I've managed to run some simple games in emulation with Whisky, so there are possibilities. For games to succeed, they also need to sell well, which is already a problem on the PC, and that is why a lot of games are low-effort console ports.

I think the best-running native game is World of Warcraft, for which Apple wrote the Metal code themselves. I don't see that happening for many games.

Try talking to Apple employees, they are behind and it's a shitstorm in the teams. They're not millions of dollars per day for nothing. Lot's of projects tabled while several teams scramble to make the next iOS release feel meaningful. I mean Eddy, Greg and John are dropping stuff left and right to get AI into everything now. Wouldn't want to be on their teams. That said, I'm not looking for a generative AI from Apple, I'm looking for something really useful in daily life. Seeing some of the papers coming out, I'm liking the direction it's going. Apple going multimodal already is quite a feat. Siri will obviously be much improved, can't wait.

He updated the article with the nvidia optimized version of whisper, and no surprise, the 4090 blows aways the macs. Still a nice trajectory that apple is on, but also still a long way to go.