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Mike Wuerthele said:

22july2013 said:

Apple has recently pulled out of purchasing Mac CPUs from Intel. Apple has repeated experience changing chip vendors (CPU, GPU, and more.) The relationship between Apple and Nvidia has been sour for many years. If Apple needed to, would it be able to pull its chip manufacturing away from ARM too? Just a hypothetical.

It doesn't need to. Apple has its own chip designers, and TSMC is its foundry. At this point, Apple relies on ARM for nothing. I do expect the Apple Silicon design to migrate further away from ARM as time progresses, though.

ElijahG basically summarized the ARM/Apple arrangement.

Agreed. From this point forward, all Apple has to do is make sure XCode and the APIs target whatever they tell it to.

In a sense, they can do whatever they want, without having a transition phase hence forth.

didn’t quite realise how much ism was alive in this forum. maga hats ftw.

so instead of 1 xBox xCloud app - there would be 100s of them in all manner of game categories, with comments about how well the controls translate for that specific game and coming up in charts and no doubt doing well against other games.

apple says to microsoft - hey don’t have one bit of floorspace, have hundreds. hey don’t have one brand in the store, have heaps of leading brands.

apple says, hey don’t just limit your service and income to existing xBox users - target people on iOS who aren’t and let’s make it easy for them by offering sign in with apple.

microsoft is complaining?

Okay, so...

MS made xCloud due to complaints from xBox users having a bad experience because they want to play hundreds of games at once but don’t want to download hundreds of games?

Any gamers on this forum?

Any of you playing through 100s of games at the moment?

or are you playing through maybe 1 or 3-4.

78Bandit said:

This was the right decision even though I hope Epic wins.  It is not a clear cut case either way.  In the absence of clear authority what Apple is doing is illegal, Epic should be required to continue on with the status quo until the courts and/or regulators rule.

illegal? so valve, sony, microsoft, google and nintendo are all doing illegal things by charging customers a retail markup?

so i guess you see shops selling clothes, food or anything else for above wholesale prices as illegal?

how do retailers make money in your alternate reality?