OutdoorAppDeveloper

Oh good. Now Apple is going to track everything you do on your iPhone and use it to bill developers. Meanwhile they are cutting back on iPhone 13 production due to lack of demand. Apple makes a lot more money from the sales of iPhones than they do from their app commissions. Developers and users can and do routinely work around Apple's existing restrictions using their web browsers. Perhaps Apple should drop the commissions entirely and focus on selling hardware?

libertymatters said:

Pretty devastating, the Max is almost half the GPU performance against the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 on the Geekbench 5 OpenCL test.  The whitewashed spin here by AppleInsider is inappropriate.

Yes and for ray tracing the RTX 3080 will wipe the floor with the M1X Max GPU. That being said it does come down to how you intend to use the laptop. The MacBook Pro has the clear advantage in several areas such as performance and battery life when not plugged into a wall socket. No Mac is a gaming machine including the MacBook Pro. This is entirely Apple management's fault. Macs are fully capable of running the same games as Windows computers but Apple refuses to allow things like 32 bit support, OpenGL/Vulkan and third party graphics drivers along with operating system restrictions that make it impossible to run classic games. It is all about corporate power rather than empowering customers.

That's a good start. Now let us install any software we want to on the iOS devices we own as long as we agree to take the risks, just like we do on our Macs, PCs and many other devices.

Why did Apple back track on the MacBook Pro? Well, customers kept telling them that they were not buying a new MacBook if it does not have the ports they need and a keyboard they can type on. Why don't you ask why Apple did not listen to customers before they made the previous MacBook? Secrecy is killing this company. You shouldn't have to release a product in order to figure out what customers want.

crowley said:

OutdoorAppDeveloper said:

georgie01 said:

It amazes me to see more and more developers who feel entitled to have their app on the App Store with free distribution, investing very little money for Apple’s developer program (which used to be far more costly with far less benefits) and zero investment to be on the App Store. Many of them weren’t even in meaningful existence as developers prior to Apple’s work.

It amazes me that I don't see more users who feel entitled to run any apps they want on the devices they own. You are missing out on so many amazing apps that can never exist because they don't follow the rules Apple created only to benefit themselves. For example, having Steam running games in a virtual machine would be great to have on iOS.

I absolutely love playing Steam games in a virtual machine on my Android device!

... oh wait, that's not actually a thing.

Everything is amazing when your imagination isn't constrained by reality.

I run Parallels on my M1 Mac mini and run Steam in Windows 11. The M1 is in the current iPad Pro and the A14 in the iPhone 13 Pro is only slightly slower. So yes, as a matter of fact, it is actually a thing. Android phones likely don't do it because A: There is no VM that can run Windows 10 currently for Android. And B: Android CPUs are quite a bit slower than the M1.
However they are working on it. Not sure where this project stands currently.
https://www.xda-developers.com/developers-port-windows-10-on-arm-to-the-samsung-galaxy-s8-and-other-snapdragon-835-powered-phones/