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diman80 said:

Make it compatible with wireless charging!

This seems the most likely route Apple would go instead of moving the USB port and removing it instead.

It could be charged by sitting on a Qi charging mat. Maybe they'd have to provide a small charger mat or puck with the mouse.

It would probably take over 4 hours to charge fully via wireless charging but if people are in the habit of placing it on the mat regularly, they'll never have to think about charging.

blastdoor said:

Of course, building their own AAA game studio, analogous to their AAA video content for Apple TV+, would be another option. Imagine if there were a game version of Silo -- that could be pretty cool. 

It's a good show but this is the kind of idea that companies who don't make games come up with, causes billions in losses and closes the studio in a few years.

It needs to have a game mechanic that people want to play, it will take over 3 years to get to market, long after the TV show is done.

The stars of the show have to agree to use their likeness, many actors don't agree to this, even for big studios like Marvel.

This is the latest popular game:



https://store.steampowered.com/charts/topselling/US

Note how many in the popular list are shooters and the prices. Balatro mentioned in the article is in the list, Cyberpunk too.

Games like The Sims and Stardew Valley seem like they'd be more on-brand for Apple Originals than shooter games but a single game can't come close to competing with Sony, Microsoft etc with 20+ studios each. If they can produce a popular franchise like Overwatch or Fortnite that would help but these games are popular because they are cross-platform and they are shooters again.

It's a good idea that Apple gets involved with first party game development, they would benefit from understanding all the pain points in doing game development for the Mac and iOS platform like they do with their pro apps. They have teams who help develop Metal renderers for game engines so they are getting involved at a deep level but a whole game production has more than this because it needs pipelines between game tools, QA, CI/CD etc.

Maybe they already have an internal game studio. We wouldn't hear about it until a game was ready and this takes 3+ years.

22july2013 said:

saarek said:

Galfan said:

schlack said:

Microsoft...what about some Xbox Game Pass love for the Mac??? 

I don’t think they will. Look at Blizzard which is now in hands of Microsoft. All new releases except for World of Warcraft are pc only…..I think only if the EU or FTC would intervene the  gaming monopoly position of Pc they might be forced to but unless that happens, I wouldn’t count on it 

Blizzard has sadly been abandoning the Mac for years before Microsoft got involved. Such a shame.

I agree with you, but it's possible that streaming games could open up a wealth of games for macOS. That could mitigate the upcoming disaster.

This is available with Nvidia Geforce Now, it supports Activision Blizzard games - Call of Duty, Diablo IV, Overwatch 2:

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce-now/games/

9secondkox2 said:

foregoneconclusion said:

What "doesn't add up" is the idea that Democrats have the ability to cheat to win but inexplicably only choose to do it in 2020 and not also in 2016 and 2024. 

Two possibilities:

1. 2020 woke up the GOP. A lot more oversight this time. 

2. “Too big to rig.”

People forget that most are entrenched on one side or the other for a long time and it's only a small percentage in the middle that changes the outcome.

2020 was 81.2m (blue) vs 74.2m, (red) = 155m
2024 was 74.8m (blue) vs 77.1m (red) = 152m

Small shift (<5%) to the right was caused by the economy (ridiculous and greed-driven rent, grocery and energy prices with no government intervention), excessive immigration, out of control debt and other left-wing politics. It's not like the party of billionaires will fix all this but it at least sends a message that not doing anything about it isn't good enough.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC-Uf7JiMPM

Regarding 'rigging', this mainly refers to people they don't regard as legitimate voters e.g first generation immigrants who gained citizenship (like Elon). Those people still voted but some shifted right, mainly men (like Elon who used to be left-wing). It's also common for narcissists to pre-emptively disregard losing by coming up with an excuse - if they lose, it wasn't fair. It's just childish, especially from someone with so many bankruptcies, 2 divorces and criminal charges to pretend they are a forever winner.

There were warnings for years that the more extreme people on the left would alienate people in the middle and drive them to the right but they just doubled down and pushed them away. This is the outcome (lost control of everything) and now they are crying in their cars and shaving their heads, not sure who decided the nose ring was a good look:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWlFZM47UuQ

Hopefully they'll learn over the next few years that politics requires compromise but I doubt it. Online interaction has the opposite social dynamic than real life interaction where division and conflict is the driving force and the more that people interact online, the more extreme they get. Zero tolerance politics always ends the same way. It doesn't mean tolerating everything, the left could win in a landslide every time by just being normal people with reasonable, small compromises on social and economic issues and then just pointing at the crazies on the other side.

There are people like this who work at Apple and are against Tim Cook working with the administration but they have to be involved when it comes to things like tariffs. The wrong decisions there could severely affect Apple's business being so dependent on imports from China.

jeffharris said:

entropys said:

1080p @ 27 inches. No. If accepting fullHD as an option should have also gone for a smaller display option.
otherwise what Tht says..  

I launched the Apple Calculator today and couldn’t believe how tiny it is at 4K!

It’s shocking that Apple has failed to address this issue.

Apple's way of scaling the whole system UI is the best route to go for an OS. There are too many possibilities for the scaling to go wrong by running at native resolution and scaling individual elements. Like old apps that haven't been updated to use a scaling API and then you are forced to change the whole display resolution each time.

Usually the 4th scaling option is usable. The "More Space" 5th option is sometimes usable on a laptop as the display can sit closer.

The main reason for Retina (aka HiDPI) displays is for sharpness and anti-aliasing rather than screen space but the 4th scaling option gives a good balance of both.

I'd like to see Apple make a 27"-32" OLED display that is around the same price as the Studio Display, even if it's only 4K. Running that at ~1440p would be ok. At 2:17 in the following video, it shows 5K vs 4K text clarity and the 5K is obviously sharper but minimally and it's influenced by the build quality of the display panel and black levels:



Having the perfect black levels and better colors of OLED makes more of a difference in image quality than sharpness.

There's an app reviewed here that says it improves text on external displays and has more scaling options:



https://github.com/waydabber/BetterDisplay

4K OLEDs are getting pretty affordable:

Asus 4K glossy 32" OLED is $999
https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-Swift-Gaming-Monitor-PG32UCDM/dp/B0CV26XVMD/
LG 4K lightly matte 32" OLED is $999
https://www.amazon.com/LG-%E2%80%8E32GS95UV-Ultragear-DisplayHDR-DisplayPort/dp/B0DH8PT8TJ/?th=1
Samsung 32" 4K OLED is $949
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/samsung-32-odyssey-oled-g8-g80sd-4k-uhd-240hz-0-03ms-smart-gaming-monitor-with-hdr-silver/6573686.p?skuId=6573686

They can sell it with a holder on the back to place a Mac mini in. Shared/split power cable then one cable into USB-C for the display.

https://makerworld.com/en/models/761405#profileId-696089

hexclock said:

foregoneconclusion said:

hexclock said:

mark fearing said:

darbus69 said:

anyone who kisses the orange monsters ring is not doing the world any good, no matter what, period.

I would rather pay more for my all my creepy capitalistic goods than bow down to him.

I agree but the industrial entities always cave to fascists first. Germany, Italy, they fall in line.

What hyperbolic nonsense. Get over it, you lost. Try again in 4 years. 

FYI...Trump still doesn't believe he lost the 2020 election.

https://www.nj.com/politics/2024/12/to-work-in-the-trump-administration-you-must-correctly-answer-these-3-questions.html

So Biden got more votes than Obama, yet all those extra voters just stayed home this time? Something doesn’t add up. 

The total numbers after the counting was done are close between 2020 and 2024.

2020 was 81.2m (blue) vs 74.2m, (red) = 155m
https://edition.cnn.com/election/2020/results/president

2024 was 74.8m (blue) vs 77.1m (red) = 152m
https://eu.usatoday.com/elections/results/2024-11-05/

Some of the difference is due to other candidates than the main two:
https://ballotpedia.org/Presidential_candidates,_2024
https://ballotpedia.org/Presidential_candidates,_2020

Total turnout was noted as 158m in 2020 vs 154m in 2024, very small difference.

But both significantly higher than 2016 at 136m (explained below):
https://ballotpedia.org/Presidential_candidates,_2016

foregoneconclusion said:

hexclock said:

mark fearing said:

darbus69 said:

anyone who kisses the orange monsters ring is not doing the world any good, no matter what, period.

I would rather pay more for my all my creepy capitalistic goods than bow down to him.

I agree but the industrial entities always cave to fascists first. Germany, Italy, they fall in line.

What hyperbolic nonsense. Get over it, you lost. Try again in 4 years. 

FYI...Trump still doesn't believe he lost the 2020 election.

https://www.nj.com/politics/2024/12/to-work-in-the-trump-administration-you-must-correctly-answer-these-3-questions.html

There's something psychological that stops narcissists associating anything negative with themselves like losing. These types commonly refer to other people as losers. You can see his uncomfortable reaction when saying the words that he lost:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Beg9NUOhZTE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCbfTN-caFI&t=947s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJvQHVlkpPI

Someone said he was muttering "I won, I won" after losing because he couldn't handle it:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/election-results-trump-king-george-b1763487.html

There's another part to this, which is covered in the second video above, which is the excuse used and it comes back to immigration. Millions of people (>20m) migrated to the US between 1990-2015:

https://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/charts/immigrant-population-over-time
https://www.facingsouth.org/2020/12/first-time-voters-played-decisive-role-2020-elections

Many of them only become eligible to vote years later and it changes the voting demographics that some people view as not legitimate as they aren't born citizens, hence their desire for a purge, a wall and changes to voter eligibility to prevent it happening again.

badmonk said:

GrannySmith99 said:

So the UK isn't in Europe any more? News to me!

Not since Brexit.

Europe is a continent, the UK left the EU, not Europe, same situation as Norway, Switzerland, Iceland, Monaco, Montenegro etc.

https://www.tutor2u.net/economics/reference/european-countries-that-are-outside-the-european-union

9secondkox2 said:

Cook gets it. Recognize a competent leader and team up. 

It’s great to see Apple have friends in high places again. 

Cook is one of the best business leaders today and it shows with his willingness for diplomacy.

When it comes to competency, I find it strange that almost every job below the highest job in democratic countries is decided by competency and review but the highest job is decided by a popularity contest, which is clearly no protection against corruption. It's also the same structure regardless of scale.

Tim Cook might not win a popularity contest but he's one of the most competent leaders, people like him should be running countries. At least by being close to the elected leadership, he can have a part in how it's run.