elijahg

This is great, but why are they being so so slow? Google managed to cover pretty much the whole world in a couple of years. Apple Maps has been out for 10 years now, and in the UK, only central and parts of Greater London have look around. They will literally never cover just the cities of the world this side of 2100 if they continue at this rate.

I’ll just leave this here. 

Using a completely different API to the Windows (and Linux) world is a big reason. Vulkcan is everywhere on non-Apple platforms, and a lot of devs know it inside out. Apple are the sole providers of Metal, and unless MoltenVK or a cross platform engine like Unity or Unreal Engine is used, porting from Vulkan to MEtal is a massive rewrite of most if not all of the game's engine. MoltenVK of course has performance implications too. It's just not worth it for devs to support what is a tiny platform for gaming, unless it's little more than a tickbox.

Apple's historic antipathy to gaming has always irked devs, such as refusing to support anything past OpenGL 4.1, even at a time when Metal was far from usable or stable. OpenGL was around 5 years out of date at this point. But now, all of a sudden, Macs are gaming machines? Yeah, sorry, there's more to it than "look it's got a good GPU!".

Jobs apparently didn't really like the fact that games became a big part of the App Store. He wasn't really too keen on them, from what I recall reading somewhere. That seems to still be in Apple's DNA today, unfortunately.

lkrupp said:

Once again we are treated to an ‘unverifiable rumor” and we’re off to the races. Tech blogs are ablaze with hate, indignation, recrimination, factual errors, and misinformation. Another day in the la-la land of make-believe and the continuous mantra drum beat of the Evil Apple Empire.

This is a rumour site. This is a rumour. Rumours are by definition unverifiable, otherwise it is not a rumour. However, if there are other sites reporting it as fact then yes, that is wrong. 

appleinsideruser said:

Will it fix Siri saying that the humidity is high at 53%? Surely 53% isn’t high? What is the threshold for not saying the humidity in the kitchen is high at xx%? And why such a long rambling answer too. 

Ok, I’m overreacting, I admit. But it bugs me.

That bugs me too. It doesn't say it for what I would deem a high temperature, so why do it for humidity?