svanstrom

thinkman@chartermi.net said:

Good call……No need to tell you how many smaller game developers depend on this engine! 

That’s basically an argument that Epic (UE) is way more a problematic monopoly than Apple is. 

So, should I kickstart the reasons why China is a problem on so many fronts; or should we wait on the CCP fanboys to arrive first? 

Seriously, though, this is a cultural problem that sort of doubly hits in cases like these.

In China you've for a long time had a culture of "it's not illegal until it is"; which seriously has limited some western companies ability to work in China, because we usually try to get things legally cleared before we do anything. And it's been notoriously hard to get things cleared beforehand (so you're much better of simply getting local political support).

Secondly there has long been an encouragement of tech/knowhow acquisitions, which has been fuelled by a perception that unless you hurt the Chinese you have a situation similar to a victimless crime.

So basically you as a Chinese company can get away with anything, until it hurts the Chinese people. So if this doesn't cause a huuuuge shitstorm, then they are basically free to just say "ooops", and then continue as usual (perhaps after an update, and a promise to not do it again).

Surprisingly fair and reasonable.

Now there's a line in the sand between different entities, and that should keep things focused on the most relevant parts of what's being fought about; so it should keep Epic from pushing things further in a childish way. If Epic for instance would start creating new entities and moving assets "on paper" between them, just to get around Apple banning them, that could be seen as contempt of court; so their childishness would then probably serious backfire on them.

Edit: spelling.

RobJenk said:

svanstrom said:

jdw said:

svanstrom said:

Damn, bro, check your autism; that shit is whack.
So you can’t really go like...
You really must analyze a text by...

And to think, all I did was ask AppleInsider to add more info.  Now after that I am told that (1) I am autistic (which is a medical diagnosis), and that (2) what I write is "whack," and that (3) I cannot say certain things, and that (4) I must analyze text only in a certain way.

Please just ignore my posts in this thread because my original post was not for you.  It's for AppleInsider.  Let's just leave it at that.  Thanks.

But damnit, here I was analysing that you meant to write something publicly when all you wanted was to leave a tip for AppleInsider; my bad, so here I got you their tip-link so you don't accidentally write your tips publicly the next time: https://appleinsider.com/contact

You're welcome.

Just easy off the poor guy, for crying out loud.  Not every post here needs a sarcastic attack.  I too want to see some of the same details he asked for.  And I don't think I need to send a private email to AI to get that done either.  Sheesh.

Haha. I think he can take it, though; but, yeah, my "hilarious" side might perhaps have been at 11 while I was merrily and mainly focused on other stuff. Sometimes it's just so much fun being a bit of an asshole, ya know; like turning his analysis around on him by pointing out that public posts aren't private communications not meant to be commented on by others. 

As far as doing SSD upgrades the performance upgrades are somewhat easily googled, and at the same time not as clearcut as how this article talks about taking a computer from a "no go" to a functioning option; so it'd be a very different type of article.

As some general advice I would say that you start by checking with https://www.ifixit.com/ what types of upgrades are available, and that seem to be reasonable, for you computer; and then do a quick comparison of numbers of the parts (like read/write speeds etc).

As far as going from SSD to SSD you will probably very rarely find a situation where the upgrade is cost-efficient as a general speedboost; the real value would be in just upping the storage to make the needed software fit at all (and depending on the exact hardware/requirements you might even then find it better with an external solution; perhaps even just an SD-card).

jdw said:

svanstrom said:

Damn, bro, check your autism; that shit is whack.
So you can’t really go like...
You really must analyze a text by...

And to think, all I did was ask AppleInsider to add more info.  Now after that I am told that (1) I am autistic (which is a medical diagnosis), and that (2) what I write is "whack," and that (3) I cannot say certain things, and that (4) I must analyze text only in a certain way.

Please just ignore my posts in this thread because my original post was not for you.  It's for AppleInsider.  Let's just leave it at that.  Thanks.

But damnit, here I was analysing that you meant to write something publicly when all you wanted was to leave a tip for AppleInsider; my bad, so here I got you their tip-link so you don't accidentally write your tips publicly the next time: https://appleinsider.com/contact

You're welcome.