danvm

radarthekat said:

twolf2919 said:

Small correction: 'There are clear frontrunners for the biggest job in tech" - isn't that the Microsoft CEO position?  Apple's market cap is $2.6T and Microsoft's is $2.9T.  Apple lost the crown a few weeks back.

Market cap is but one measure, and it’s more a measure of investor sentiment, which changes often, than a true measure of the underlying business.  It may be arguable which company has more impact upon society and the technology landscape, but it wouldn’t be difficult to argue that Apple has had the greater impact.   

AppleInsider said:

RAM stays at 8GB and storage starts at 512GB on entry-level M3 configurations.

Marvin said:

danvm said:

Marvin said:

blastdoor said:

ihatescreennames said:

AppleInsider said:

"We will continue to work with regulators, and Apple and Google, to create a space for alternative storefronts. I'm a big fan of how Windows works, and you've got a Microsoft Store on Windows, you've got Steam, you've got the Epic Games Store, you've got GOG," he tells the interviewer. 

Microsoft has its own walled garden in the Xbox marketplace. It charges a similar fee to game developers that Apple's App Store does.

If he’s such a big fan of the way Windows works why doesn’t he change Xbox to reflect that? I imagine Steam and Epic would love to have their own stores on Xbox. Isn’t he the guy to make that happen?

I wonder if Microsoft is planning to get out of the Xbox hardware business entirely and he just forgot that they hadn't made that announcement yet. If not, then his comment is blatantly hypocritical. 

They said they will continue to make Xbox hardware and their next hardware upgrade would be the biggest generational jump:

https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/16/24074729/microsoft-phil-spencer-xbox-everywhere-memo
https://www.ign.com/articles/xbox-next-gen-console-confirmed-business-update

They and Epic are hypocrites. They want every other platform open so they can leverage them to boost engagement with their own closed platforms.

IMO, it's not about being hypocrite.  I think they are doing what they think it's best for their business.  For example, we see Apple speaking about privacy, and at the same time, they do business with Google and made their search engine the default in Apple devices. It could be seen as hypocrite, but it in reality is just business and what makes sense for the company.

That's what the word means, regardless of it being best for business. Apple doing business with Google doesn't mean they compromise their own standards of privacy, people use Google anyway. When Microsoft and Epic laud open platforms while maintaining closed ones for the same benefits Apple does, that makes them hypocrites.

One of the reasons platforms are better closed for gaming is to prevent cheating. Microsoft conveniently fails to point out that game devs on open platforms like Windows install kernel-level anti-cheat software:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/19do1mv/helldivers_2_will_force_you_to_install_rootkit/
https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/13/22724037/call-of-duty-ricochet-anti-cheat-system-kernel-level-driver

This is highly invasive software that has system-wide permissions. The people who want open platforms need to undermine some of the security model of the closed platforms to get what they want. They have no right to demand that other companies make less secure software for all of their customer base for their own financial benefit.

macxpress said:

Microsoft's Gaming CEO is also a big hypocrite! 

Marvin said:

blastdoor said:

ihatescreennames said:

AppleInsider said:

"We will continue to work with regulators, and Apple and Google, to create a space for alternative storefronts. I'm a big fan of how Windows works, and you've got a Microsoft Store on Windows, you've got Steam, you've got the Epic Games Store, you've got GOG," he tells the interviewer. 

Microsoft has its own walled garden in the Xbox marketplace. It charges a similar fee to game developers that Apple's App Store does.

If he’s such a big fan of the way Windows works why doesn’t he change Xbox to reflect that? I imagine Steam and Epic would love to have their own stores on Xbox. Isn’t he the guy to make that happen?

I wonder if Microsoft is planning to get out of the Xbox hardware business entirely and he just forgot that they hadn't made that announcement yet. If not, then his comment is blatantly hypocritical. 

They said they will continue to make Xbox hardware and their next hardware upgrade would be the biggest generational jump:

https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/16/24074729/microsoft-phil-spencer-xbox-everywhere-memo
https://www.ign.com/articles/xbox-next-gen-console-confirmed-business-update

They and Epic are hypocrites. They want every other platform open so they can leverage them to boost engagement with their own closed platforms.