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Wgkrueger said:

Good, 5 more people can now use the m1 Mac. 

red oak said:

avon b7 said:

red oak said:

LoL 

The EU has become a bunch of lifetime bureaucrats trying to legislate and birth
technology

That is not how it works 

That's how it should work - and does work.

Electronic IDs and passports, digital certificates etc already exist across the EU. 

I can update the the digital certificates on my ID Card using just my biometrics. I can obtain my digital 'signature' from government for use online etc. 

These technologies already exist but they are not harmonised across the EU.

Logically they will be improved upon and integrated but issues that only governments can decide on have to be tackled (and are being tackled). Privacy, security, legislation, enforcement...

The EU is perfectly able to 'birth' technology and has been doing it for decades. It normally does it in conjunction with partners.

Here's a recent example :

https://www.european-processor-initiative.eu/project/epi/

Name your Top 3 EU tech companies today 

jdb8167 said:

lkrupp said:

ajmas said:

Intel drops the ball, AMD picks it up and Apple decides they'd go with ARM. Intel is now in the process of doing damage control.

Apple on the other hand never targeted gamers and has always been a joke for gamers. Deprecating OpenGL and leaving it in a seemingly unmaintained state does not help the game developers who do want to port to macOS. On the other hand, while this is a barrier for a certain number of game developers, that iOS has a healthy selection of games, may mean there is a chance that these games will be ported to macOS. Also, I wonder how many Apple users simply turn to a console for the gaming experience?

And to me gamers have always been a joke, a tiny, minuscule market niche of people with questionable social skills. sort of like the gear-heads of the 1950s and 60s with their super chargers and Holley 6 packs trying to outdo one another on the street.

From: Global-PC-Games-Market-Analysis-2015-2019

The global pc games market was valued at about $27.73 billion in 2018 

That is one big niche. I can still understand why Apple doesn't care since even moderate share would still be just a blip for them but it is pretty big nevertheless.

Trey_Lance said:

h2p said:

applguy said:

And the profit on V-bucks after paying store fees I estimate to be 90%. (Full disclosure I pulled that number out of the air but it’s probably close.)

The cost of producing a "V-buck." amortized over the cost of developing the game is very, very close to Zero.

A digital "V-buck" is an invented currency. It is a line of code? A few lines of code? Pure Profit! (Does anyone remember 150 texts per month for $15? Cost to phone company was essentially Zero.)

The Apple App Store provides actual services (come on Epic! payment processing, auto updating apps, etc etc etc).

Exactly. If I was Apple, I would not mind spending a few billion to make an example out of greedy Epic. I would just ask Epic in court. “ So you want to use our services for essentially free? Do you think we are in communist China?”

They're sleeping at the wheel lately in Brussels lately, aren't they? First the corona fiasco with AstraZeneca, then the Borell fiasco in Moscow, and now this...