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Wasted potential is a common theme between all of Apple's platforms now - lots of great benchmarks but little if anything that can exploit the hardware's capabi
by blinkingled 5y ago
Wasted potential is a common theme between all of Apple's platforms now - lots of great benchmarks but little if anything that can exploit the hardware's capabilities.
On iOS/iPadOS the OS and walled garden restricts it, on the Macs looks like the old all games are on Windows problem made worse by Metal.
Apple should showcase real-world apps using the M1 and compare it to Windows/x64.
- jolux 5y agoThe pro media apps can exploit it. I suppose game developers are uninterested though.
- hdjjhhvvhga 5y agoApple could reduce their commission on macOS to 5% now, wait until many developers play along, and after a few years return to 30%. A lot of uproar, maybe a small slap one the wrist, but a huge financial gain in the long run.
- vbezhenar 5y agomacOS is not a closed platform. You don't have to pay a penny to Apple. I would actually expect most developers to use Steam rather than App Store.
- jolux 5y agoYou don’t have to pay Apple any commission to distribute on macOS because you don’t have to use the App Store to install software. Steam works fine. That’s not why games aren’t made available on Mac.
- ctvo 5y ago> Apple should showcase real-world apps using the M1 and compare it to Windows/x64. This reads as they should showcase apps I use. From Anandtech's review re: Adobe Premiere Pro: > What we find is that both Macs perform well in this benchmark – a score near 1000 (the score is 955) would match a high-end, GTX 3080-equipped desktop – and from what I’ve seen from third party data, this is well, well ahead of the 2019 Intel CPU + AMD GPU 16-inch MacBook Pro. That seems like it's unlocking the hardware's capabilities.