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netrox said:

EngDev said:

AppleInsider said:

"We don't give a rat's about being first, we want to be the best, and give people a great experience. But now anything you would se[e] on the market any time soon would not be something any of us would be satisfied with," Cook said. "Nor do I think the vast majority of people would be satisfied."

Then why did they launch ARKit on devices without depth sensing hardware for the rear camera? It's something that's almost essential for a great AR experience.

Because it's too soon and not cost effective? Remember, there are reports of depth cameras being in a tight supply.

AppleInsider said:

"We don't give a rat's about being first, we want to be the best, and give people a great experience. But now anything you would se[e] on the market any time soon would not be something any of us would be satisfied with," Cook said. "Nor do I think the vast majority of people would be satisfied."

macxpress said:

EngDev said:

macxpress said:

EngDev said:

macxpress said:

It would be nice if developers would just develop games on the Mac side supporting Metal 2 while they create a Windows version, even if its a month or so behind the Windows release. They want to keep saying there's no market for the Mac...well duh! Probably because you don't make the game for it and when you do, its created half-ass. 

Outside of using eGPUs, mac computers aren't exactly gaming machines. Most mac laptops have Intel Iris or Iris Pro, which might be fine for light games, but anything beyond that is asking too much. Even the best mac configurations still aren't anything special.

The ones with discrete GPU's are good enough to play most games today. You don't need a 1080 to play every single game. 

The Radeon Pro 555 in the 15 inch Macbook Pro offers around 25%~35% of the performance of a GTX 1060 6 GB, a card that can be found in a $980 laptop. The MBP 15" is good enough for less demanding games, but not much more. Even a MX150, NVIDIA's entry dGPU for laptops, offers about the same performance, if not better for gaming.

People don't buy laptops with the intention of playing games on them....You're stuck on one model. Apple makes more than a MacBook Pro. 

magman1979 said:

EngDev said:

The graphics seems to be well behind the CPU, at least compared to the competition. Both those GFXBench scores and 3DMark scores aren't far off from this year's Snapdragon or Exynos. In some cases they're even behind.

I'm curious to see if Apple can push that further in future chips now that the entire graphics portion is in-house.

gmgravytrain said:

Yes, the iPhone's GPU is definitely behind the Android competition as far as the benchmarks tell. I'm not sure how much this means in the real world. It definitely helps Android devices in terms of bragging rights. I don't know why the iPhone's GPU is weaker than Qualcomm's Snapdragon GPU. I'm sure Apple will be able to fix that eventually but if it's not going to help iPhone sales, then it probably isn't even worth the effort to have a slightly better GPU which most consumers won't even notice.

And the Android BS pushers have arrived right on queue...