Sorry, that's pure rubbish. We'll not see an Apple desktop using ARM for years, ARM just doesn't have the bus power to be a viable desktop yet.
My MBP will still be useful for connecting to my EDServer
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Sorry, that's pure rubbish. We'll not see an Apple desktop using ARM for years, ARM just doesn't have the bus power to be a viable desktop yet.
My MBP will still be useful for connecting to my EDServer
Why do you need a tower? I play Elite in VR on my Laptop..
Geez, why would you use Linux? That mess changes daily. Then you have 101 dalmation versions of it. Every boy-hacker has their own flavour. How could any company support their product on it?
I think that would be a wonderful gesture on FD's part. Although it does assume said Mac users were willing to go bootcamp.
It was predictable
Thanks Apple for the MAC community
Thanks Apple for the MAC community
My only PC is a Mac, and this is one of the reasons I own a Playstation, because I've personally found the Mac to be a poor platform for gaming. I think you made the right decision, even though I do feel bad for Mac players because the Mac hardware is pretty great (assuming they have high-end graphics). Hopefully these players can pick up a cheap copy of Windows and use bootcamp for ED. I suspect they've seen the writing on the wall for awhile.
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We were valued customers right up to the point we became expendable.
One day, you will all become expendable.
One day, you will all become expendable.
...yeah...when they shut off their servers...
Naw, the gaming support for macOS is not good enough to make this work for me. The iMac exists as a thing to help me get stuff done and the gaming PC is for playing games. I pretty much just look at my PC as a souped up gaming console. My iMac is pretty recent (27” 2015 5k) so I will be keeping it for a number of years yet.
"We can rebuild him. Faster, stronger, unstoppable..." -Ram Tah
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I'm not a Mac fan by any means - I'll use it if I have to; I'm more comfortable with PC - but I work in both education and the creative industries and from what I've seen, the penetration of Mac desktop into those sectors is just nuts. I'm always amazed by the number and fanaticism of the Mac users I know, and in many cases, their wariness, derision and even outright fear of using Windows. Tell them they have to use Photoshop or Premiere on a PC, and a lot of them look at you with panic like you just asked them to land a 747. Keystrokes aside, most of the software they use works exactly the same on both platforms, but you cannot make them see that.
I wouldn't underestimate the stubbornness of users who are entrenched in a particular system, especially users who are not first-and-foremost computer tech enthusiasts (artists, teachers, photographers, editors, etc.), who have been intensely marketed to by one company for decades, "don't have time to learn a new system", and are the ones making demands to IT departments about what hardware to buy.
They might move eventually, but it won't be overnight, and I think a lot of them will be way more forgiving than you might expect.
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I'll just leave this here:
https://hardforum.com/threads/vulkan-now-available-on-macos-by-moltenvk-being-open-sourced.1955310/
(TL;DR: Valve made it possible to use Vulkan on macOS.)
https://hardforum.com/threads/vulkan-now-available-on-macos-by-moltenvk-being-open-sourced.1955310/
(TL;DR: Valve made it possible to use Vulkan on macOS.)
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PC users were once told that should the game ever end, they would do something so you can still play the game, but the universe won't update any more.
Surely Mac users are entitled to get this too, are there plans to put it into action so mac players can still play the game in some way?
(because if not, then I think we can take it that PC users won't get it either, the day the development ends for good)
Surely Mac users are entitled to get this too, are there plans to put it into action so mac players can still play the game in some way?
(because if not, then I think we can take it that PC users won't get it either, the day the development ends for good)
Now come on if it were flat the cats would have pushed everything off the edge already. Be logical about it now.
There is a reason why Apple includes this with every installation of OSX...
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/boot-camp
At worst it's a minor inconvenience for most, Apple already provides the tools to allow their customers to run Windows & all it's programs.
A Windows 10 license can be bought off Amazon for the price of a couple of pints down the pub & remains perfectly functional even if you don't pay for a key.
Players that have bought ED for Mac already have a PC license (& vise versa) so no extra cost there. In fact there is little to no extra cost to the player other than their time to set up boot-camp & install Windows + EDH. The chances are most of them will already be using boot-camp for one thing or another so will probably already have the system set up.
The only people that might be locked out are those that were on systems that were only just able to run the game in the first place. Or, (which is more likely) those that simply don't want to use the tools provided to them (but that is all on them).
That said, it would be a nice gesture of goodwill if FD offered those that might be affected by the change access to Horizons, either via bootcamp or their console of choice.
... What.
Is there a statute of limitations on computer history that I ought to know about?
It is dwarfed by colossal revenue by mobile for Apple.
They will have to. Many have already seen signs. Yes, there are many people who don't want to change and they will most likely will try to keep their Mac laptops going as long as possible. But without vendor to fall back to, they will be forced to make decision.
The desktop market is shrinking for all manufacturers, not just Apple. Many Apple fans moved to laptops long ago and many are now finding that iPads and even smartphones have enough power to do the day to day work. Much of PC gaming has moved to laptops and consoles are starting to get closer in power to PCs built for gaming.
Apple knew that gaming was not a good business idea for them back when Bungie went to MS. Apple is usually ahead of the curve when it comes to seeing where the market is headed. It was nice of FDev to support ED on Macs as long as they did but it wasn't a smart financial move and I think the financials of supporting Macs long term was a bigger factor than any technical limitations.
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