OutdoorAppDeveloper

Rayz2016 said:

OutdoorAppDeveloper said:

If this were the only shortcoming of the new iPads there would be reason to get upset. As it stands, Apple's walled garden has shut out the iPad Pro from the pro market. iOS is seen as a toy operating system. It makes it impossible to do so many things that pros need to do like manage thousands of files or compile code or manage a network or ...

I see. 

If only there was some other profession outside network management, it might have a chance. 

What we need are alternative professions, like people who make other people better when they get sick, or people who help other people with legal problems, or people who make pictures move to entertain or inform other people, or people who collect words on a page to entertain or inform other people. 

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True but those things require apps coded by professional software developers that can't use the iPad Pro to do that. They run on networks you can't manage with an iPad Pro. You have no idea of what else you could be doing with the iPad Pro if you were not living under Apple's restrictions.

If this were the only shortcoming of the new iPads there would be reason to get upset. As it stands, Apple's walled garden has shut out the iPad Pro from the pro market. iOS is seen as a toy operating system. It makes it impossible to do so many things that pros need to do like manage thousands of files or compile code or manage a network or ...

Metal on iOS makes perfect sense for all the reasons stated in the article. Metal on Mac OS only makes sense if Mac OS itself is going to be deprecated in the future. This is because the main driving force for improvement in graphics hardware for the past two decades has been games. Gamers have kept the cost of the hardware down to affordable prices and the performance on a steep upwards curve. New SDKs such as Vulkan, DirectX DXR, CUDA and OpenCL are far ahead of Metal. They can even do ray tracing. For Metal, a game developer's only choice is a game kit like Unity or Unreal. Most AAA titles use their own game engine such as EA's Frostbite which do not support the Metal. Productivity software also will not support the Mac. A company I worked for in the past only supported the Mac because it could run the same OpenGL on Mac, Windows and Linux. Without OpenGL you can expect a much shorter list of Mac compatible graphics apps. This is part of Apple's plan to sideline the Mac which they are putting very little development effort into compared to iOS. This is a good business decision but they should be honest about the future prospects of the platform which is being kept on life support until they can come up with a way to develop software natively on iOS.

It is built in obsolescence. Windows will run on 15 year old computers while Mac OS will refuse to run on any Mac built more than six years ago. There is really no technical reason why Mac OS could not run on a 2010 Intel CPU. These are decisions made at the top of the company. Apple does what is best for Apple and not for its customers. The reason developers are not up in arms about Apple dropping OpenGL and OpenCL is that it really happened years ago when Apple stopped updating it. Mac OS is now about five years out of date. When you look at the extremely poor library of AAA games available on the Mac, know that it is Apple's poor hardware features and lack of cross platform software support that is the major reason. Of course people don't buy Macs to play games. Pretty soon people won't buy Macs at all.

So if you play music though your Belkin adapter for an hour with the screen off, it stops suddenly forcing you to unlock your iPhone possibly while driving? That's not a good thing. This needs to be optional. Most of us don't really care if the police look at the crap on our iPhones.