There is one group of people who are willing to spend ludicrous amounts of money for this product, and that’s gamers.
Unfortunately Apple does not and has never understood games as art. They only care about casual games that bring in the $$.
Apple also has beefs with Khronos, NVIDIA, and Epic.
I had thought that when VP came out, Apple would make amends with the gaming industry particularly Epic because they really need Epic’s on their side for VP to succeed. Who is going to build games for this thing in the best engine if Apple can ban Epic’s developer account at any time?
Nope. App Store revenue comes first. It’s just the same as the iPad Pro. Great hardware squandered because of App Store rent seeking.
Nvidia demanded Apple to allow its video driver to be able to phone home just like it does in the windows toy OS(running in ring 0 no less).
Epic/Tencent fortnight abuses the DNS protocol probably to bypass wirewalls. Both can be observed via wireshark, which I leave as an exercise for the reader.
Personally I’m glad Apple told both of them to go pound sand.
There is one group of people who are willing to spend ludicrous amounts of money for this product, and that’s gamers.
Unfortunately Apple does not and has never understood games as art. They only care about casual games that bring in the $$.
Apple also has beefs with Khronos, NVIDIA, and Epic.
I had thought that when VP came out, Apple would make amends with the gaming industry particularly Epic because they really need Epic’s on their side for VP to succeed. Who is going to build games for this thing in the best engine if Apple can ban Epic’s developer account at any time?
Nope. App Store revenue comes first. It’s just the same as the iPad Pro. Great hardware squandered because of App Store rent seeking.