neoncat

Apple Defense Force™ is flexing its muscles in this thread! God bless.

Cool, looking forward to Apple dramatic lowering prices on their devices due to the degraded, advertising-soaked user experience. Right? ... Right?

I love Steve Martin. This may be the first thing on ATV+ I have any interest in watching. Although, I'm surprised the filmmaker isn't using Martin's excellent 2008 autobiography, Born Standing Up, as a boilerplate. It's a great read, particularly about Martin's love/hate relationship with his success as a comic.

chasm said:

entropys said:

I am surprised there enough Apple Arcade users to notice.

There are more people enjoying Apple Arcade — by a factor of several million fold — than are interested in anything you’ve ever said or done, and that’s being extremely conservative.

Well done, you took the bait. It's trivial to bait regulars here into defensive positions because toeing the line is more important than debating the reality.

Apple Arcade is a low effort, low imagination service that manipulates users by offering re-treads and second-tier developer cast offs as a "me too" effort that offers nothing of value. It is not a service that competes on merits because it has no merits. Offering it the faint praise of "well, I found a few games I liked" is not what we should expect (or demand) from a company like Apple. That's Chinese OEM-level effort.

You know what, I was wrong. Apple Arcade does have a merit. It's cheap. And boy, that's sure the Apple brand identity, isn't it? "Not that good, but cheap. Why not." 

Stop defending utter garbage. Apple screws up sometimes. It's not an indictment of the entire company, it means on this one thing, they screwed up. And Apple Arcade should've never gotten past "yeah, no, that's a dumb idea. Either we do it right or we shouldn't do it. Back to the drawing board." Like every. other. product. Apple makes. They get it right, they do it well, they earn a price premium through excellence.

foregoneconclusion said:

AAA gaming is now the smaller market for revenue versus mobile gaming. If anything, Apple is ahead of the curve for making money from gaming versus AAA oriented companies. That's why you see Epic and Microsoft suddenly doing a full-court press of lawmakers and claiming that Apple's mobile operating systems are anti-competitive. They're the ones that are behind.  

Do you enjoy lowest common denominator Match 3 / loot box dynamics? If so, that’s great. Apple platforms are a paradise of said bottom feeding, extracting great big piles of money from people who are otherwise afraid of gaming and big old mean “gamers”. 

The rest of us won’t contribute one hot cent to that, even if it means we have a house full of Apple products…. except for the items we gsme
on. 

Not. one. penny. to the App Store for games. Not now, not ever, as long as it is made up of mobile gaming garbage. You may feel differently.