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macxpress said:

I'm sure I provide more of an Apple service to the community than you ever will.

I seriously doubt that you will.  

Having worked in Apple product management I happen to know what goes into the development of the products and how the future product plans are laid out years in advance. I know that not updating a product for multiple years usually means the product is EOL or there is a serious creativity crisis in product development/management. 

Apple's main mantra for product development was always market creation, and they still do in some segments. However the decimation of the ecosystem around macOS signals a company in crisis that no longer are able to create and inspire in the product segment that still carries the company (in that all products rely on code generated on macOS). 

macxpress said:

I'm a person who works in IT who supports macOS, iOS, ChromeOS, Android, and Windows all in one organization. Believe me...I know what works and what doesn't

Maybe you do in your particular company, but you sure as heck know nothing about Apple's user base overall and what makes it tick. 

Actually you come across as someone who would call your users for lusers, because that is the undertone of most of your postings dissing Apple and Apple customers. 

The Apple user base is people looking for the ease of use that has been the hallmark of Apple's system integration in their own ecosystem, and now that base are thrown to each on their own to figure out how to make their system work across system upgrades, diverse components and time.

Tim Cook stands at the risk of throwing out the very core base that was willing to pay a premium price exactly for that integrated environment where all worked.  They came to Apple either because they did not have the time to tinker around or they simply had no interest in the technical issues as they were focused on other, to them more important things, where the Mac became their tool for expression, creativity and business development. 

macxpress said:

Oh boy...here we go! Continuous bitching about the Mac mini. I doubt most here are gonna buy one anyways. 

Every time there is a discussion about the Mac Mini you come out like an idiot dissing everyone who says they have machines they want to replace, they have a requirement for better and faster processing and memory, or they actually want to buy a Mac Mini new system. 

You are only doing the community of Mac users a massive disservice both by pointing them to (often inferior) alternatives to Apple, but you are also doing Apple a disservice by encouraging their current or potential customers to go elsewhere. 

What these developers don't factor in is that a rewrite to Metal makes the road to iOS devices very short for their games. Of course many of the same developers are under the impression that iOS devices are not to even be considered for game titles in that their graphics performance is very low.

The real situation is by the time they have done their port, yet another iteration of iOS devices are in the market with ever increasing performance both on the device itself, but also on the big screen. So the upside is only increasing - primarily in the iOS device market, but you sort of get the Mac for free as part of the package.

 Now, Apple has not exactly been very helpful in promoting graphics performance on their Macs with only up till recently underperforming mobile GPUs even in the desktop configurations, where the lack of will to make space for sufficient cooling and inability to upgrade GPUs have added little encouragement.

 As one of the developers stated, the rather short 1 year future horizon WWDC presents to developers is often a deterrent for developers to start complicated rewrites.

macxpress said:

Why don't you submit your resume?

Because I receive pension from them! ;-))

And are are you actually claiming Apple is a design by committee company!? 

They are on fast track to become one. 

Not doomed, but it would sure as heck help their customers if they released hardware equivalent to or better than i7 configurations not being able to run Mojave. 

OutdoorAppDeveloper said:

I have not found any WWDC sessions on moving to Metal for OpenCL developers. I wonder why that is?

Because you did not look good enough, or maybe only wanted to make a doom-ish posting?

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2018/604/

There has been multiple such sessions in earlier WWDC conferences too.