Yeah, it’s that thing where it’s positioned as both good consumer electronics and as a luxury accessory and I don’t like my clothing/things I carry to send messages beyond a tight spectrum so I’m complaining and being anxious about nothing. But
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ive got an otterbox case that doesn’t have a logo cutout, it rules
this is the first phone i’ve bothered to buy a case for because it has a camera bump and is legit too thin to easily pick up off a table thanks jony
yeah I have a nodus leather thing, also no logo, beautiful
Case manufacturers can’t print the logo themselves and showing off the brand of phone you own is viewed as important in many markets, especially China
i haven’t compiled a linux kernel myself since like 2002 i’m not sure what your deal is
as a developer i’m not so much bothered by opengl dying (the API has some very real shortcomings) so much as Apple just going Fuck You, Use Our Special API instead of the entire rest of the universe which is standardizing on Vulkan
every time you make it harder to develop for your platform, you get less ports overall and shittier overall port quality. if you want higher quality you make it easier to do. that’s just how it is.
yeah, and I still have to use out of tree chromium build patches to enable hardware video decoding, as I have for the past five years
Mind you Firefox hasn’t ever supported it on Linux in non Flash contexts so it could be worse
Linux and I are real close but never in all my life would I describe it as the best of any worlds
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is there a good non-adtech web browser on linux even
vaguely remember epiphany being alright in like 2004
non-Chrome chromium builds with UBO are fine with me, not sure how bothered you are beyond that. I would definitely not try anything that doesn’t use upstream Webkit/Blink, which pretty much leaves chromium and derivatives like Opera.
i’m 100% fine with modern firefox. latest updates bring it up to speed nicely.
and you’ll never miss a new season of Mr. Robot
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This is the main thing you don’t seem to grok about Apple’s developer strategy in general: Apple doesn’t want ports and they don’t care if they don’t get them. They want people to make apps specifically for the Mac that play into the things that differentiate it as a platform. Almost every development-related decision they make makes a lot more sense when viewed via that angle, whether you agree with or not.
I know that approach doesn’t work for games, because practically no one is making games specifically for the Mac anymore in 2018, but as far as Apple is concerned games are just a category of apps and they treat them no differently.
If you do actually lock yourself up in the Apple ecosystem and only buy apps from developers who target the Mac first, the user experience quality is unrivalled on any other platform. This is what Apple wants to preserve, and that’s why Apple will take any opportunity to fuck over people writing multiplatform software.
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Yes, I don’t get it. Personally, I don’t really understand it and I don’t really want that.
But from a developer standpoint, it is intensely frustrating to be asked to jump higher and higher hurdles just to support a bunch of people who honestly would want your software. So from that perspective, this is really unbelievably stupid and frustrating and is not something that is easy for me to understand.
Mostly, it makes me want to say, yeah, you clearly don’t want me there, and I don’t want to be there, k bye have fun with that.
A friend is just going to ship things in Electron wrappers now. Can’t blame her. We simply do not have the time for this anymore.
I share your feelings
I feel like as a user Apple only wants you if you are willing to be 100% committed, and as a developer they just keep throwing up hurdles while letting their own quality slide
Well, in this same announcement they added more iOS compatibility, so I think what Apple hopes will happen is shared iOS/OS X apps as opposed to Electron apps.
even with sliding quality it’s leagues above what i’ve experienced elsewhere
but my mac also isn’t where i play games, i do that on a console mostly when i do.
i also have a pc where i do all my high-powered 3d graphics stuff since windows unfortunately has better support and tools for 3d software. it’s one of the few areas i think the mac isn’t the best platform suited to the task.
but yeah, the mac and apple are gonna be fine. windows has a proprietary graphics api too and if open GL support there is so shitty… i don’t get what the big deal about this is, if only for the fact that people really seem to enjoy making a fuss about apple. like sakurina said, their vision for the mac isn’t just to be another platform you click a button and compile for. is it kinda elitist? sure is, but it also makes for a great user experience for most people, and that’s what they care about most.
writing this from my 2012 macbook which has been serving me well longer than any other machine i (or my family) has ever owned.
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Stratifying the general purpose computing market into expensive, walled-off gardens doesn’t seem like it will be a good thing in the long run
yeah because the opengl/d3d split happened over the course of decades rather than on a whim, so people had time to figure out what to do. apple’s lousy support of opengl on their own platform has been… infamous… amongst developers and a continuous source of frustration. but also it was the only option.
like, hey! why does this absolutely standard method of optimizing output on every other platform run noticeably slower than the version that is supposed to be slower? who knows! Apple! they don’t fix things! they just leave them broken! forever!
so color me not too excited about them running their own API given how historically badly they managed that.
i just don’t ever wanna hear people complaining about lack of ports to macOS, at least. you reap what you sow, there.
am done
sure but by the same token the people who demand Linux ports in steam comment threads are absolutely insufferable and refuse to grasp things like “the maintainer of this unity plugin has absolutely no marketshare incentive to do this” so it does swing both ways there
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YES