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quikquak · Post by **quikquak** » Tue Jun 05, 2018 12:30 pm

Apple just wants to control everything, I'm surprised they even allow third party devs like us on their machines in the first place!

stratum · Post by **stratum** » Tue Jun 05, 2018 12:37 pm

So lets complete the rumours to its natural conclusion

0xEAB · Post by **0xEAB** » Tue Jun 05, 2018 12:37 pm

quikquak wrote:I'm surprised they even allow third party devs

It's because they make money by selling XCode

waltercruz · Post by **waltercruz** » Tue Jun 05, 2018 1:24 pm

whyterabbyt wrote:No. They're locking down, not opening up.

yes. And add to this that they seem to be preparing their system to run on their own processor.

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker ... -macs-date

quikquak · Post by **quikquak** » Tue Jun 05, 2018 1:39 pm

Yeah, do I buy a new mac now or wait two years?! Don't tell me - do both right?

EvilDragon · Post by **EvilDragon** » Tue Jun 05, 2018 2:04 pm

Can always just stop shelling out too much for their crap, too.

deastman · Post by **deastman** » Tue Jun 05, 2018 2:16 pm

quikquak wrote:Yeah, do I buy a new mac now or wait two years?! Don't tell me - do both right?

Buy early and buy often.

quikquak · Post by **quikquak** » Tue Jun 05, 2018 2:29 pm

deastman wrote:
quikquak wrote:Yeah, do I buy a new mac now or wait two years?! Don't tell me - do both right?
Buy early and buy often.

Yessir!
*walks off in a cartoon zombie pose*

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Tue Jun 05, 2018 2:48 pm

I wonder if they're going to break Metal every 12 months like they do AU.

Music Engineer · Post by **Music Engineer** » Thu Jun 07, 2018 5:48 pm

Guillaume Piolat wrote:The more particular and non-standard it is to develop for them, the more developers will make it Apple-only.

wouldn't it be more more likely that those developers just drop the mac support and make their applications windows only or windows-and-linux?

VariKusBrainZ · Post by **VariKusBrainZ** » Thu Jun 07, 2018 7:41 pm

Apple have acquired Iron maiden

stratum wrote:So lets complete the rumours to its natural conclusion

mystran · Post by **mystran** » Thu Jun 07, 2018 8:21 pm

I don't think having to write yet-another-wrapper for some new API is necessarily a huge deal, but deprecation of otherwise perfectly reasonable hardware is arguably a dick move.

edit: I'd like to add that I personally think OpenGL is a terrible API that only has one killer feature: it works.

stratum · Post by **stratum** » Thu Jun 07, 2018 9:12 pm

MS has another way of deprecating old API's: New hardware requires new APIs and old APIs do not support newer hardware ( I've learnt it the hard way while trying to figure out why BluetoothFindFirstDevice does not return low energy bluetooth devices)

Aleksey Vaneev · Post by **Aleksey Vaneev** » Sat Jun 09, 2018 8:58 pm

waltercruz wrote:
whyterabbyt wrote:No. They're locking down, not opening up.
yes. And add to this that they seem to be preparing their system to run on their own processor.

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker ... -macs-date

I hope and expect this "ARM desktop" narrative goes bust. Save $30 on a CPU cost and lose $50 on software upgrades, bad economy for everyone.

stratum · Post by **stratum** » Sat Jun 09, 2018 11:13 pm

Aleksey Vaneev wrote: https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker ... -macs-date

I hope and expect this "ARM desktop" narrative goes bust. Save $30 on a CPU cost and lose $50 on software upgrades, bad economy for everyone.

Just $50?

There goes OpenGL for Mac.