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Why would Valve do this for a trillion-dollar walled-garden?
by adhamsalama 3y ago
Why would Valve do this for a trillion-dollar walled-garden?
- mschuster91 3y agoBecause at least CPU-wise, the M SoCs blast a lot of the x86/64 competition to pieces. GPU is another story, although unified memory is inherently better than the current situation on x86/64.
- MBCook 3y agoWhy release a crappy product on Mac and leave it that way for over a decade? Don’t know. But that’s what they’ve done. If I were Apple, I wouldn’t partner with someone who clearly didn’t give 2 shits about my platform. (In reality Value doesn’t need Apple. And Apple would never partner anyway, they don’t do that)
- yencabulator 3y agoValve often does things because a person employed by Valve wanted to do that thing. And then that person moves on to other things. You don't need any grander explanation for "Valve ported the Steam launcher to OS X and now barely maintains it".
- MBCook 3y agoAlso, since I can’t edit my other reply, the Mac is not a walled garden. You can use any tool to make apps and sell them online without having to get them approved in the Mac App Store (which almost no one buys from).
- johnnyanmac 3y agoBecause they "put customers first"? That seems to be the PR that people feel had them invest in Linux, but they forget it was more of a desperation move in a time where Windows may have been trying to strongarm 3rd party game stores out. Very smart to leverage that failure of Steam Machine into a portable form factor. A bit ugly and clearly some cut corners, but the price saved on no Windows license speaks for itself.