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lmasanti said:

Apple has always been the… worst gaming platform!

This tired trope is so boring. The reality is that time and again, games that are actually developed with Macs in mind perform much better than their PC counterparts.

This is coming from the developers as well. Remember when Blizzard came out and said the OpenGL version of World of Warcraft on the Mac consistently outperformed the DirectX version on PC? No, why would anyone remember that when it doesn't side with their belief that the Mac is not a good gaming machine?

Then there are reports floating around about the Metal3 versions of games vs the DirectX versions.

The problem for Mac gaming is that game developers are lazy slobs who only go for where the money is. Ironically that money is on the Mac platform but these idiots don't see that and so they keep developing status quo versions for PCs then wrap them in Cider so they can be played on the Mac. This creates the illusion that Macs suck for gaming but it's because there is a MASSIVE performance hit by on-the-fly conversion from DirectX to Linux APIs (that's correct, Cider doesn't even convert to Mac APIs).

It is going to be telling if more developers start using Apple's porting tools for gaming. Once those AAA titles start coming to the Mac in the correct way then you're going to see a huge rethink in Mac gaming.

Oh, great. That means I won’t be able to play Rocksmith 2014.

Rocksmith+ sucks because there’s no Mac version and I can’t seem to use the Rocksmith cable with iOS.

Actually Apple has been using machine learning since iPhone 6s.

Remember when Apple released the 6S and the world poo pooed it because “who needs a 64 bit processor in a phone?”.

What they failed to notice was the Camera app which could take 100 photos, process them, take the best parts of each photo, then stitch them together to make the best photos ever seen on a mobile device. All in the time it takes to go click.

That sort of processing needed a powerful processor like say… a 64 bit processor to achieve.

Apple hasn’t looked back since.

kellie said:

First you have to assume CO2 is a pollutant.  In which case you should stop breathing because you’re externalizing the costs of your existence upon me.  There is still much debate over the impact of CO2 on climate change.  I know the plant world is very happy to see more CO2 in the atmosphere.  

Second, China CO2 output is skyrocketing.  Any CO2 reductions Apple implements in China are meaningless and have virtually no impact on global CO2 levels.  

The costs to reduce CO2 are added to the cost of goods sold.  Apple wants to maintain or increase profitability so these new costs are passed along to the consumer.  Pollution control either increases costs or reduces profits.  Of course governments love the idea of a carbon tax to supposedly address the costs to society of CO2 emissions but it’s just a money grab. 

Overall it’s politically correct virtue signaling.  If Apple really wanted to address environmental impacts of their products they would make Macs that had user upgradeable SSD’s or RAM.  Their current designs decrease the useful life of their products and create massive profit opportunities.  iPhones should have upgradeable storage as well.  

Actually China’s pollution output is steadily dropping. In 2018 China had reduced its emissions by 75% and was on track in 2019 to reduce them even more If that decline continues China could very well get on top of most of its pollution problems within the next 5 to 10 years.

The Chinese government is handing out massive fines to industries that are producing too much pollution so it’s in the companies’ best interests to reduce pollution. Apple will be adding to that incentive.

That leaves the real problem being European and American productions.

To be honest I’ve been pronouncing it the way Siri does long before Siri was a glimmer in the milkman’s eye.