71 points

Apple: only implements a proprietary graphics API

Also Apple: Why does no one make games for my platform??

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Steve Jobs quite openly hated the idea of anyone gaming on a Mac because he felt like it made their products seem more childish or something. It seems like either nobody at Apple has managed to dig that particular brainworm out yet or have just decided that printing iPhone money makes all other concerns irrelevant.

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This is absolutely not true, certainly not at the time of Bungie and how Microsoft made Halo Xbox-exclusive: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2010/10/jobs-turned-down-bungie-at-first-how-microsoft-burned-apple/

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2 points

Is this true? Could I not do OpenGL on a Mac?

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12 points

They ship an outdated and unreliable implementation 😅 There are things that use it, but my understanding is you couldn’t use it in the same way you can on other platforms.

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15 points

Was CS:GO available natively on Mac? If so, this is unfortunate news for the small subset of Mac users who played, since CS:GO is now no more.

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11 points

Damn Whoopie Goldberg gonna be so mad

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9 points

Too bad Apple guys won’t be able to play a casino with extra steps

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6 points

Will there be any new Macs really? Isnt everything just some iPhone/ipad with iOS soonish? I doubt macs have any relevance in the future - just like last time when there was no Steve Jobs around. I mean there arent really any apps even for their watch… So why bother? Maybe they can just usw some cloudgaming …Apple ppl love paying and subscriptions.

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Not sure what you’re talking about, a whole lot of people use MacBooks, I don’t think their market share dropped significantly. Desktop Macs, sure maybe but I think even that won’t completely die out.

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They are just ipads soon.

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I’m not sure if that’ll happen any time soon, they’d lose out on the IT professionals, audio professionals etc.

I got one just this year and it certainly doesn’t feel like an iPad at all.

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