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StrangeDays said:

Honkers said:

Can hardly blame them, after Apple pulled OS support for 32 bits apps, rendering a massive chunk of Steam's library obsolete on Mac.  Apple are a flighty partner when it comes to other parties' interests; best to stay away if you can.

And yet, Valve specifically cited CS2 is 64-bit only, because that’s the right direction. 

I find it hard to believe the Linux market has greater potential than the macOS market.

Yes, but only because the macOS gaming market potential is 0. It is 100% people who buy Macs for other purposes but also use it to play games. Absolutely - and I mean absolutely - no one buys a Mac to play games, not even partially. Anyone who is even partially motivated to buy a computer to play games is going to consider A. the widest possible selection of playable games and B. the best possible gaming performance for the money. Macs come up way short in both. Put another way: when listing the reasons to buy a Mac to game ... all of them on that list will be reasons to buy a Mac. They are extremely important to Mac fans but irrelevant to gaming and to gamers. 

Nothing Apple can do about this either. The 3 year old entry level MacBook Air will buy an Nvidia RTX 4050 system with 16 GB RAM and a recent Intel Core i5. The latest 16" M2 Max MacBook Pro costs the same as an Nvidia RTX 4090 machine with the latest AMD Ryzen 9. Yes, those machines will be very thick, extremely heavy, have noisy fans, plastic frames, unreliable trackpads, terrible webcams, outdated Wi-Fi and bluetooth radios and be absolute eyesores. Guess what? No one who buys them will care. They have machines that will max out their resolution/FPS ratio and so long as the screen is fine and the oversized keyboard is responsive they're thrilled. 

The gamer crowd and the Mac crowd are apples and oranges, cats and dogs, Lakers and Celtics. Nothing in common. Apple will continue to pay lip service here but don't expect them to actually do a whole lot.

Not defending Microsoft or Google here, but I just want to point out that Microsoft is not suing Google here (because they would lose). The feds are. The feds called Microsoft as one of the many witnesses for the prosecution. They aren't trying to prove that Google did anything illegal or is a monopoly with respect to Microsoft. Instead, they are using Microsoft as a single data point in a much longer case to prove that Google has either done something illegal or is a monopoly. Microsoft really didn't want to have anything to do with this, because they knew that Google would mock them for their massive failures in mobile and search, as well as remind people of the stuff that Microsoft does to leverage Windows. 

The most concerning rumors was that the iPhone was overheating - and throttling - while playing demanding games. This was the earliest mention: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/iphone-15pros-overheating-during-gaming-severe-throttling.2403584/
while this was the most concerning: https://wccftech.com/iphone-15-pro-struggles-with-gension-impact-a17-pro-throttling/

They were the ones who caused people to be concerned about the "new CPU design on a new node" thing. A concern that Apple squashed in the fastest and best way possible.
1. Authorize your supply chain to share the "it is the titanium, not the node" information with the most trusted Apple analyst/leaker.
2. Let them focus on the least concerning problem, which is heating while charging, and not the most concerning one which is overheating while gaming.
3. Have this leaker state "can be fixed by a software update which will arrive soon."
4. Using Kuo is "the next best thing" to official information - meaning that it will be sure to go out on all major media sites and will be seen as trusted info - without Apple having to acknowledge it as an official problem.
5. Also, shuts off follow up information i.e. how is it that you are so sure that it is the titanium and not the node? And how is it that you were able to find this out so quickly? Did you know that this might be a possibility in advance but wanted to wait and see?

This way, the issue will die down, people will forget that it ever happened, and Apple will never have to officially acknowledge it.

Appleish said:

Seems overblown, but because of third-party cable and charger fires, we only buy authentic Apple accessories. And only directly from Apple, because everything on Amazon, Ebay, etc. is suspect. We only get non-powered third party accessories.

No, everything on Amazon, eBay etc. is not suspect. Please quit it with the FUD.
1. Anker cables are great. Anker was founded by very good engineers who left Google and built a much better and far more profitable hardware business than Google ever will.
2. Samsung, Lenovo, Cable Matters and Belkin cables are very good.
3. Amazon Basics cables are fine. I have been using them for years, including the 30 pin and lightning cables that I have bought for many an iPad and iPhone. 

Guys, seriously. I know everyone wants to avoid the cables used by the $75 prepaid phone crowd. But seriously, a Samsung Galaxy Z Fold - I don't name these things - costs $1800 and that is actually down from $2000. And a Samsung Galaxy Tab Ultra costs $1500. Android devices have been using USB-C for going on 10 years. Not only that, notebook PCs have been shipping with USB-C chargers. Steam Deck, a gaming console, and its copycats? The same. Even in the Apple ecosystem, MacBooks and iPad Pros have used them for years. The whole "USB-C chargers are used for Android phones and have no quality control!" nonsense was precisely that, pushed by Apple fans who take it upon themselves to defend every. single. corporate. position. that. Apple. takes. Provide tons of free Apple PR even though they aren't being paid by Apple marketing and aren't even running blogs or YouTube sites where their advocacy can be monetized with clicks. It is amazing. 

Third party Apple proprietary cables have always existed and people have always bought them. And there have been PLENTY Of reputable manufacturers of USB-C cables for ages, which iPad customers have been buying. Claims that the iPhone is somehow different and special - or their customers are somehow less able to find good cables than everybody else - are just that.

No new iPads until there are new chips for them. Remember: entry level chips only because of power/thermal/cost considerations. And you can't have the Pro and Air on the same chip. 
The iPad Pro will need to go from the M2 to the M3.
The iPad Air will need to go from the M1 to the M2.
The iPad will need to go from the smartphone chip to the M1 (as will the Apple TV).
As TSMC 3 is a new process, for the time being there is barely going to be enough capacity for the iPhones. Anything else will need to go to the MacBook Air and maybe the 13" MacBook Pro. Also, using 3nm chips on $500 iPads while your $4000 Macs remain on chips made on a 3 year old 5nm node is gauche. Might as well wave the white flag and shart shipping macOS on iPads at that point. 

This is life at the leading edge. AMD won't be able to access TSMC 3 until 2025 because they don't want to get into a bidding war with Qualcomm, MediaTek, Nvidia and Intel (who needs it for their GPUs) over it. Intel? Same. Even though - despite rumors otherwise - their 7nm process actually is working fine, they are limiting capacity for financial reasons in order to save money to build maximum capacity for the 5nm and 3nm processes they are going to use in 2024 and 2025 (going back to using the tick-tock process of standing up nodes makes this possible from a technological standpoint but is WAY more expensive in upfront costs). So they have to cede desktop and workstation superiority to AMD for yet another year.