AppleExposed

MacPro said:

Excellent article.  I am so glad at least somebody knows and writes about the history of Apple accurately.

Although only mentioned in passing I am pleased you mentioned the costs of those powerful Macs such as the  "Mac IIfx--with a starting price well above $17,000 in today's money--with the much faster and more powerful Quadra 900, priced closer to a current-day $13,000." It helps put the cost of the new Mac pro in perspective and hopefully helps quash this totally silly meme that Apple has priced itself out of the pro-market spread by those that can't afford or justify one but secretly want one. 

dysamoria said:

Game development on a Mac Pro huh...? Doubt it. That is a PC development world. Games do get ported to Mac OS sometimes, and gamers consistently complain that the performance is inferior on Mac OS (even when run on the same hardware as Windows).

More importantly: Two of the major game *engines* (Unreal and Unity, not iD-tech) are ported, but not necessarily the development tools. The development is still primarily Windows-based. CryTek even seemed to have abandoned the Mac porting feature for CryEngine, shortly after announcing CryEngine (originally tied to DirectX on Windows) would be massively cross-platform.

Am I holding old info? Have these engines’ development environments and toolchains actually been ported to Mac OS?

Even if developing games on a Mac Pro would be fast enough to justify studios buying Mac Pros for development (all the positive wow statements mean nothing for Mac Pro sales), the game itself would have to be cut down massively to run on *any other Apple product* (the ones consumers can actually afford to buy).

The same thing happens to PC games, as we see when developers show off BS at E3 and then ship games with far inferior-looking versions of the same games... but the GPU performance on Windows is consistently higher level for desktop gaming than on Mac OS, and only the non-anorexic Macs were ever competitive at all (while still running Windows).

so...

Is Apple actually going to start courting gaming on Macs? How will they do that?

mark fearing said:

Soli said:

1) Roku's CEO has been very clear that Roku is in the ad business, not the HW business. Consumer privacy is not something they care about. I didn't see this addressed in the review.

2) I don't think listing "A10X Fusion" and "Quad-core processor" are helpful for potential buyers. Even if you listed various performance values that show which is faster it still wouldn't detail how well their systems work on their respective platforms. In my experience tvOS is considerably more refined, faster, and with fewer hiccups and crashes than the Roku's I've set up and used.

Yup.

Roku's been passable in my experience but certainly NOT refined in speed, interface or management and yes, they really want to get info and sell your habits. As for which is better, there isn't really a debate about 'better'. If you don't like Apple don't buy it. It will let you watch streaming TV.  If you are in the Apple ecosystem it's pretty darn robust from that POV and Roku can't come close.

M68000 said:

This is a bit hard to believe considering how long iOS 13.x.x has been out and all of the ranting about issues with it there have been.   I myself have been scared to upgrade since my phone is working fantastic on 12.4.1.  Perhaps in the future,  they should do more evolutionary changes to iOS instead of what seems to be massive changes.  It seems obvious they had to code for the new 3 camera system on the new phones.  But instead,  could they have focused on the new cameras first and then work on the new changes and release the new changes after much more thorough beta testing?  More than any other release, it seems 13 was rushed out the door when it didn't have to be.  I wonder if Tim Cook is aware of all the negative posts about it on various forums.

BxBorn said:

studiomusic said:

Wow, if iPhones did this, it would be the end of the world. But Samsung can even have a phone that blows up and it's just business as usual...

Really? because iOS 13 was found to have a lockscreen bypass issue that went pretty well under the radar as well as the Apple issue whereby when updating the credit card used for iTunes payments users had someone else's billing details exposed to them but sure, the world would end on an Apple security issue...