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  • Apple releases fourth betas for iOS 13.2, iPadOS 13.2, tvOS 13.2, fifth watchOS 6.1 [u]

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    usersinceos1 said:
    It would be helpful if you would state the build number for every update that you announce.  Thanks in advance.
    Buy a $99 Developer yearly contract if its that important to you.
    razorpit

  • Editorial: Why the Apple A13 Bionic blows past Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus

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    blastdoor said:
    Apple's silicon design team is truly amazing -- they are second to none. Maybe tied with Intel for first. 
    You mean AMD, because Intel's team is getting it's ass handed to it.
    watto_cobra

  • Editorial: Mac Pro puts the pedal to Metal in Apple's race with Nvidia

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    dysamoria said:
    Game development on a Mac Pro huh...? Doubt it. That is a PC development world. Games do get ported to Mac OS sometimes, and gamers consistently complain that the performance is inferior on Mac OS (even when run on the same hardware as Windows).

    More importantly: Two of the major game *engines* (Unreal and Unity, not iD-tech) are ported, but not necessarily the development tools. The development is still primarily Windows-based. CryTek even seemed to have abandoned the Mac porting feature for CryEngine, shortly after announcing CryEngine (originally tied to DirectX on Windows) would be massively cross-platform.

    Am I holding old info? Have these engines’ development environments and toolchains actually been ported to Mac OS?

    Even if developing games on a Mac Pro would be fast enough to justify studios buying Mac Pros for development (all the positive wow statements mean nothing for Mac Pro sales), the game itself would have to be cut down massively to run on *any other Apple product* (the ones consumers can actually afford to buy).

    The same thing happens to PC games, as we see when developers show off BS at E3 and then ship games with far inferior-looking versions of the same games... but the GPU performance on Windows is consistently higher level for desktop gaming than on Mac OS, and only the non-anorexic Macs were ever competitive at all (while still running Windows).

    so...

    Is Apple actually going to start courting gaming on Macs? How will they do that?
    You'd have to be a complete fool not to know a lot of game development is done on Macs. Game Engines moving to Macs is what you're thinking has been predominantly for Windows first, then ports to OS X and Linux second.

    Unity seems to be doing exceedingly well with Fortnite on a daily basis:


    and that is just today so far for the iPhone. I'd imagine if the iPad and Google Play stats were available you're talking closer to 5-8 million in revenue, per day. Amortize that per year, for just Fortnite and you can see why Epic Games is investing in Macs and Metal. Alone it is around $750 million annually for Fortnite on the iPhone alone.

    Apple is courting all the game developers to first work on Apple Arcade--all Metal across all platforms of OS X/iOS/iPadOS/tvOS/...

    What you're mad is that Apple hasn't developed a Gaming Workstation for you to brag to your friends how many FPS it gets over their PC Windoze boxes.

    Apple is about first bringing the Professional Creative Workstation products to these studios who then will use them to do most of their work in. The Gaming Engine testing and SQA for Windows will slowly lose the Developed, Tested and Released first on Windows complete circle.

    The Game Engines are becoming platform agnostic. The creation of the games however will more and more be done exclusively on Macs as Metal rapidly becomes more efficient to develop the layouts, world AI play, etc.

    More and more games can move to Vulkan on Windows and Microsoft's DX11/DX12 stranglehold will weaken and ultimately force them to replace it with Vulkan or risk Windows losing first system status for games.



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  • FCC approves $26.5 billion T-Mobile and Sprint merger

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    cy_starkman said:
    Sprint, the ever looming threat to verizon and at&t that by virtue of its strong commercial position kept them honest and trying to avoid being eclipsed by sprint.

    i doubt at&t would have accepted the iphone or rolled out 3g if it wasn’t for sprint snapping at their heels. apple probably threatened at the negotiating table to go with sprint and see at&t crushed within 2 yrs,

     thought nobody ever
    Don't you mean Cingular?
    cornchipcy_starkmanllama

  • FCC approves $26.5 billion T-Mobile and Sprint merger

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    virgilisleading42 said:
    The loss of Net Neutrality surprisingly has only helped consumers. Faster speeds and more infrastructure is being built. Who knew that that one was a total miss call by people. It really hasn't been a problem at all, if anything, it's ended up being better.
    Those build outs are mainly due to municipalities building their own networks.
    cornchipronndysamoria