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lowededwookie said:

I hope they bring this to New Zealand. We use a similar banking style to UK so hopefully next round.

I doubt it though, there’s still little support from banks for ApplePay, especially those whose cards are issued by Westpac.

Yeah, the only one of the Australian banks that was relatively quick to accept ApplePay was ANZ. The others had to be dragged kicking and screaming to the system, and collectively all of them have taken legal action to try and force Apple to open up the NFC facility on iPhones.

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danox said:

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nizzard said:

I'll be happy with Epic finally goes out of business. 

I wouldn't be. Unreal Engine is pretty essential.

Which is why Apple can’t sit on the sidelines when it comes to game engines, the evolution of what Unreal Engine has become, can’t be ignored by Apple any longer, it’s too important going into their computing future and I don’t think dependence on a third party company is going to work long-term.

The recent flake out of Unity also adds to the fire now that Apple is starting to add Ray Tracing cores to their hardware, and into future to even smaller devices, they need more control the 15 pro with its A17 processor (heat), and what’s coming up with the Apple Vision Pro, the tolerances, wattage/heat/battery are just too important. if programs like Instagram are causing trouble what do you think gonna happen with a game engine? I’m sure Apple is talking about it, with Epic/Unity in their face in recent times.

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US.  Just take a look around. It’s too important…. In the future.

In what way is Apple dependent on Unreal Engine?

What "flake out of Unity"?

Not sure what you mean by Instagram causing trouble or what that has anything to do with game engines. Developers actively work to optimize their software for new hardware, often in tandem with Apple. This is no different for Unity and Epic.

Not sure what you're talking about, once again.

Instagram is purportedly one of the key offenders of iPhones running hot (this forum comment).
Unity has recently backed down from a proposed licensing fee change that really annoyed their developers. There's another AI article covering why it's a problem for Apple.

Back in the 1980s and 90s, university IT departments charged actual money for processor time on the mainframes and Computer Science students had to spend that money to get their coding assignments done - an extra incentive to make sure you didn't write an infinite loop or inefficient code, to be sure. But there were still problems that took a reasonable amount of processing even with the best algorithms available, and that could cost a student $5 or more - the price of a pretty good meal at the time. Some enterprising souls took it upon themselves to write their solutions in PostScript and send that code to the communal LaserWriter in the computer lab, which cost $1 per page - expensive, but a fixed cost - and would tie up the printer for sometimes more than half an hour, leading to general consternation amongst the gathered students who simply wanted to print a plain text document, and to the lab administrators who noticed a drop in revenue. Eventually the powers that be twigged to what was going on and mandated use of the mainframes for assignments, but I always got a chuckle out of the story.

I admired the inventiveness that led to the exploit of building a virtual machine inside an EPS image using the PostScript capabilities of the format as well, but the nefarious uses to which that was put just can't be allowed.

So I'm sad to see the end of such a useful technology, but the time has come to replace it with the newer, more robust options that have been subsequently developed.

deh2k said:

Can we still print to Postscript printers with macOS Sonoma?

I'm guessing yes - the printer itself has the PS interpreter onboard so macOS can just transmit the file to the printer.

Given the forecast lack of demand for Vision Pro and all the moaning about how it won't be popular, I'm surprised that we don't hear that same talk about an Apple Car these days. It was one of the things that cropped up with the original Project Titan rumours, but people seem to have dropped it in favour of claiming that the whole project is kaput.

Maybe Apple has decided that once Spatial Computing is widely available the demand for physical travel will be reduced and making a car is no longer the sort of industry it wants/needs to be part of. Possibly the insistence that staff will need to be in the office as much as possible will also be reduced, once the technology improves to the point where group FaceTime chats sufficiently mimic physical presence.