saarek

PauloSeraa said:

saarek said:

beowulfschmidt said:

saarek said:

It’s such a shame that Apple left Lightning to effectively die (despite the EU being a big reason for the change). There was nothing stopping them from upgrading Lightning to take faster speeds, etc. I’ll never understand why they did not bother investing money into it.

They fought the EU over the directive, but had they worked to keep Lightning up to date, indeed made it better than USB-C they could have pointed to the advantages as an example of why they should be allowed to keep proprietary ports.

It's cute that you think the advantages or disadvantages of Lightning versus USB-C had anything to do with the EU's decision, other than providing high sounding justification.

I never claimed that, the writing was on the wall for lightning ever since the iPad Pro’s went USB-C.

Although the EU directive may well have sped the transition on. 

My central point remains though. Had they kept lightning more up to date and even offered some advantages the EU directive would have been much easier to stand against.

Considering Apple's history with USB-C and the fact that iPhones are planned 3 years in advance, there is no justification that anyone can make to claim that the EU had any impact on Apple's decision or timing with moving to USB-C on iPhone. Apple always planned to move to USB-C. But they wisely waited until USB-C grew up around iPhone and became so common that the move would be welcomed rather than detested by the wider iPhone market. Moving much sooner would have met with anger and consternation amongst the millions who don't know or care what USB-C is, and would simply prefer their existing cable not change.

Standing against the EU directive also has nothing to do with USB-C itself. It has to do with an inept governing body getting involved in something they are incapable of being involved in, and ruining future innovation. The only reason USB-C became as ubiquitous as it is (ubiquitous enough to be the EU's choice) is because companies were free to adopt it, by choice, and prove it out in the market place. How exactly is that supposed to ever happen again? Why would anyone bother making the next great standard when no major manufacturer is free to adopt it onto their devices and start making it popular? The EU is utterly batshit and this law of theirs is a disaster for the future. 

beowulfschmidt said:

saarek said:

It’s such a shame that Apple left Lightning to effectively die (despite the EU being a big reason for the change). There was nothing stopping them from upgrading Lightning to take faster speeds, etc. I’ll never understand why they did not bother investing money into it.

They fought the EU over the directive, but had they worked to keep Lightning up to date, indeed made it better than USB-C they could have pointed to the advantages as an example of why they should be allowed to keep proprietary ports.

It's cute that you think the advantages or disadvantages of Lightning versus USB-C had anything to do with the EU's decision, other than providing high sounding justification.

flydog said:

saarek said:

There was nothing stopping them from upgrading Lightning to take faster speeds, etc. 

Source?

panathaninf said:

I bought the game day one of it being released on Steam. I own PCs and Macs and I was so happy I could play a game series I enjoyed since being a child in all my computers and especially some older macs that I keep for use only on my summer and winter houses... Fast forward the game was advertised to be supporting both PC and Mac, NOWHERE was it mentioning that the Mac port would be release at some unknown time in the future... Result? I had to find from forums that Macs where not supported until later AND of course make arrangements so that I can play the game on PC. Now the game has finally being released (with even greater delay than was communicated) but 1] I have finished the game already in PC and have no further interest, 2] It either doesn't run or runs horribly any of my Macs , ok for my old mac mini, not ok to be horrible in the 17.1 M390 AMD discrete gpu 27 Imac (It runs okish in the supposedly worse nvidia 960M junk laptop PC i keep as backup plan) and NOT OK that it sucks in the just two+ year old M1 air 1400 euro... More absurd it that my son's Lenovo's something/whatever legion 799 euro older than my M1 air performs really fine.... Whom on a Mac this game targets???

It is still beyond me that Apple, the biggest company in the world, trillion dollar valuation cannot spend some billions to have video games like starfield, cyberpunk released on Mac AND ffs it lets situations like BG3 with delays and performance issues slip to their customers...