danvm

AppleInsider said:

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

9secondkox2 said:

And here’s to 40 more years of innovation in the best computers on the planet. 

9secondkox2 said:

designr said:

danox said:

designr said:

danox said:

designr said:

tht said:

designr said:

According to another article these are the things they've been looking into:

1. How the Apple Watch works better with iPhone than other smart watches do.
2. How Apple locks competitors out of iMessage.
3. How Apple blocks other financial firms from offering tap-to-pay services similar to Apple Pay on the iPhone.
4. Whether Apple favors its own apps and services over those provided by third-party developers.
5. How Apple has blocked cloud gaming apps from the App Store.
6. How Apple restricts the iPhone's location services from devices that compete with AirTag.
7. How App Tracking Transparency impacted the collection of advertising data.
8. In-app purchase fees collected by Apple.

(Numbered only so I can address them specifically here.)

1. Is probably just because Apple has great engineers.
2. Totally Apple's prerogative.
3. Might be a bit sketchy of Apple—and a legitimate reason for consumer/owner/user complaints.
4. Not sure exactly what number 4 means.
5. Would be solved by allowing users to load apps from alternative app stores.
6. Might be sketchy of Apple too.
7. Not sure about this one.
8. Would be solved by allowing users to load apps from alternative app stores.

All and all, of the various claims, complaints, and concerns leveled against Apple I would say that not allowing users to load apps from sources other than the Apple App Store perhaps carries the most legitimate weight. This is a bone that Apple can—and should—throw the regulators and anti-trust litigators before it's too late. What's more, Apple should seriously leave even more heavily into enabling a gold-standard platform for web apps (i.e., Progressive Web Apps). Surely they can't be making so much money from the App Store to risk bringing the rest of their profit and revenue structure come tumbling down. Just build the best damn phone (or tablet or computer) for running almost any kind of app (i.e., native, web, etc.) and loaded from anywhere. Do this and much of this brouhaha ends overnight.

P.S. Apple just pulled another bone-head move of rejecting the 37 Signals Hey Calendar app: https://x.com/dhh/status/1743341929675493806 (here's a summary: https://world.hey.com/dhh/apple-rejects-the-hey-calendar-from-their-app-store-4316dc03)
P.P.S. Whether anyone here wants to admit it or not, Apple has become like the Microsoft we hated in the past (and IBM before them). Perhaps this is an inevitable outcome of success and size and dominance. But I think we all expected—perhaps quite naively—better from Apple.

Apple owns their platform: 1st party devices only, the OS and platform only goes on their devices, and as such, every item on the list you have is up to them and them only.

Interesting perspective. The implication is that Apple "owns" the devices that I have purchased.

Bottom line is that I should be allowed to install apps from anyone I choose to.

(NOTE: For some of the other items like Messages, I agree, that's their platform. But there's clearly a line here where Apple is extending its controlling, authoritarian hand into a device that I have paid for—and handsomely I might add.)

Either way, Apple best be careful here.

Apple owns the Software OS, you own the hardware as is you don't get copy or change it and git your money back.

And downloading software from somewhere else does neither of those. That's crazy talk.

Apple owns the Software OS, you own the hardware as is you don't get to copy the software and sell it separately not without the hardware.

Stop it. No one is suggesting doing that. People just want to be able to download apps without (necessarily) getting them from Apple's App Store. This is not complicated or unreasonable. Except for Apple Fanbois I suppose.

And Nintendo customers want to download games from Steam. When you buy Apple, you buy Apple. If you want the Wild West, you buy android. 

Xed said:

danvm said:

9secondkox2 said:

Apple has started the assault on gaming with their first step - an actually great. GPU. 

The base A17 Pro/M3 will be the baseline for AAA games. So the hardware effort has been launched.

Logically, if Apple is truly going to make a go of it, the. next step will be developer tools - oh... That's already done?

Gee, sounds like it's a real thing then.

The next step will be the founding of a first-party game studio/purchase of an existing AAA studio - or three. Even one exclusive/timed exclusive/semi-exclusive game per year would be huge. And third parties adding to that would be a good start. But Apple actively recruiting third-party contracts would be the way to go. They have made some baby steps in this regard, but a serious effort would be massive. With Apple's fan base combined with gaming fans, Apple wouldn't know what hit them with the financial additions and fan growth.  

Getting the M3 into an affordable hardware "Apple Arcade" would be a great move. in addition to the computer/device ecosystem.

I expect to see more news on this front at WWDC. 

Nintendo has the weakest console in the market, and the sales has been amazing because the innovation and the games.  A  device with an A17 / M3 is not enough to be successful in gaming.  And I don't think and affordable device for Apple Arcade will do something when you have a better console, service and ecosystem in Xbox Series S + GamePass.

danvm said:

danox said:

saarek said:

Xed said:

lam92103 said:

Pushing hard? The new ARM based Mac Pros don't even support GPUs.

All Macs have GPUs.

I’m assuming they meant External GPU’s.

That ship has sailed, which is why Apple has to be more proactive as usual they simply can't put their future in gaming in the hands of Unity and Epic (who are flaking out) they need to make the tools needed better than what they are today, and one or two really good games showcasing the built in abilities won't hurt.

If I were Apple I wouldn't pay any of these flaky game companies, this being Apple anything done aside from software gaming infrastructure needs to fly under the radar until ready. Could be in motion already?

And what built-in abilities will Apple showcase that could be better than what we have with Intel, Nvidia and AMD?  Apart from efficiency, the other companies are ahead of Apple.  

In one post you comment that it's not about the HW, but the games, and in the next you say it's about the HW, while dismissing power efficiency of a laptop which is already meeting and beating the performance of most discrete GPUs sold. Eesh.

9secondkox2 said:

Apple has started the assault on gaming with their first step - an actually great. GPU. 

The base A17 Pro/M3 will be the baseline for AAA games. So the hardware effort has been launched.

Logically, if Apple is truly going to make a go of it, the. next step will be developer tools - oh... That's already done?

Gee, sounds like it's a real thing then.

The next step will be the founding of a first-party game studio/purchase of an existing AAA studio - or three. Even one exclusive/timed exclusive/semi-exclusive game per year would be huge. And third parties adding to that would be a good start. But Apple actively recruiting third-party contracts would be the way to go. They have made some baby steps in this regard, but a serious effort would be massive. With Apple's fan base combined with gaming fans, Apple wouldn't know what hit them with the financial additions and fan growth.  

Getting the M3 into an affordable hardware "Apple Arcade" would be a great move. in addition to the computer/device ecosystem.

I expect to see more news on this front at WWDC.