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fastasleep said:

Marvin said:

Johar said:

Yet another clueless flyweight gaming effort from Apple, in a world of gaming heavyweight actors. It's beyond pathetic that Apple completely fails to understand what real gamers need and want. And no, that doesn't include grandmothers, who might happily buy "Hot Dog Stand Simulator 2018" as a birthday gift for little Andrew, 7 years old.

Jeez, if Apple wants to be anything of consequence in gaming, they need to do something bold, like buying Steam. That's what an entry ticket looks like. After that, they'd need to dedicate real resources to it long term. Something they've NEVER done with any of their feeble attempts so far.

Every move like this improves the platform for gaming. Their current achievements and game profile is quite hidden in the App Store:

https://www.idownloadblog.com/2020/08/13/apple-arcade-achievements-game-center-iphone-ipad/

This will give them something more like Steam. They wouldn't have to buy Valve but they could partner with them so that achievements and some purchases sync across games. If someone is playing Resident Evil 2 on iPhone and completes an achievement, it should register in their Steam profile and vice versa, same with save games.

This is really basic syncing, request a sync for a Steam id, verify it in Steam, store a sync token, then sync JSON data for game ids that includes purchases, save games and achievements.

The reason mobile gaming ended up with the casino-like pay-to-win model is that people weren't willing to pay money for lightweight games and that set the expectations for payments on mobile.

It would be good if Apple could find a way to get mobile gaming to be more like the Nintendo Switch or Steam Deck where people are willing to spend $60+ on a single good quality game but it's going to be very difficult to do when the expectations have been set for so long and for so many people. I think they would have more success trying to get people to spend $4.99-9.99 outright for titles similar to how Super Mario Run did it. It's free to download to get the first level and then unlock the rest of the game. This wasn't very successful for Mario but if they kept promoting this model, it would gain traction eventually by managing player expectations.

While I agree Steam integration of some sort would be great, it's not like Apple to integrate with a competitor. The better option to buy a game available on both is on Steam, for multiple reasons. Steam is the far better option.

As far as non-Steam stuff, I'm not sure what this is other than rearranging the App Store tab for games to its own thing. And after Game Center and Arcade and everything else they've failed at in gaming, I'm failing to see how this moves the needle — YET. Maybe there's more to the story.

The SMART thing would be to bring back Steam VR and integrate with Apple Vision Pro, even bring back HTC and other headset compatibility. Bring VR gaming to the Mac. We had it, kinda, for a second, in like 2017. That was my biggest disappointment with AVP.

muthuk_vanalingam said:

apple4thewin said:

Isn’t there a new battery material that was supposed to solve the slimming issue? I know some Android phones have it already. I believe it is the silicon-carbon mix.

Yes, you are right. It is silicon-carbon. And it has helped in increasing the battery capacity by 20%-30% in the last year or so. Earlier, 5000mah was the typical battery capacity in Android phones. Now, 6000mah battery has become the norm in Android phones, except for few OEMs like Samsung, Motorola who have not used those batteries for some reason. Some phones have battery capacity in excess of 7000mah as well. I think Apple would have been testing them for last 1 year or so and would have found it suitable to use it in the upcoming iPhones later this year.

commentzilla said:

The number of Star Trek jokes about the M5 are about to escalate!  

"This unit must survive." - M5, Star Date 2268

The M-5 multitronic unit, or the M-5 computer, was an advanced multitronic computer system and prototype created by DoctorRichard Daystrom during the mid-23rd century. M-5 was installed on board the USS Enterprise in 2268 as a test of its capabilities. The M-5 drills were designed to allow the unit to command and control the ship during several exploration simulations and war games.

During battle drills, the computer's self-preservation instinct became dominant, resulting in the destruction of the robot ship Woden and the deaths of several hundred Starfleet officers when it severely damaged the USS Excalibur and USS Lexington.

The senior crew attempted to cut off the computer from the ship's controls, but M-5 rerouted command functions through new data lines, and kept sending false signals through the original ones. The computer could also generate a force field around itself, effectively preventing anyone from coming near it.

Captain James T. Kirk made the computer self-destruct by asking it if it was right to kill another being. M-5 said that it was a crime against the laws of Man and God, and, believing that such a crime was punishable by death, deactivated itself.

M-5 'The Ultimate computer'

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/M-5_multitronic_unit

canukstorm said:

apple4thewin said:

Could this high performance processor be the m-Extreme rumored chip? Or even the older rumor Apple Silicon dGPU?

This Macrumors post sheds a little more light on the "M4 Extreme" processor

'M4 Extreme' Chip Unlikely After Apple 'Cancels' High-Performance Chip - MacRumors