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apple4thewin said:

Hopefully that means Apple works with Steam to make a temporary Game Porting Toolkit native mod until developers decide to update their applications.

OMG that would be wonderful! I don’t see the business case from Apple’s end, though. I imagine they’re somewhere between unconcerned to gleefully embracing that Mac gaming should pass through the App Store and leave residues in their pockets… 

CheeseFreeze said:

tobian said:

I would welcome old style Mac OS X System Preferences. iOS style with Mac related prefs is still confusing for me, have to use search for panes everytime.

The old style wouldn’t have scaled well with the amount of options available. I understand the change. And aren’t we mostly using the search bar there anyway? 

Nonsense. I have dual 32” monitors. Shrinking and turning functions into a list is annoying. Totally kills things. And no, I rarely use search, although more now that the system preferences pane is designed by a child with an iPhone. 

Edit: having the choice would be optimal. If you prefer the new way, great! It’s a Mac; the horsepower for choice exists… 

thedba said:

Here are my “on a napkin” calculations.

An iPad Pro 13” = $1299

Smart keyboard w/trackpad = $319

Total: $1618

OTOH MacBook Air = $999

MacBook Air 15” (you know productivity) = $1199

Does anyone really think that folks arguing for “productivity” and “real work” are going to start buying iPads by the truckload because of this?

Absolutely correct! However, I detest laptops and love my iPad. Despite it never quite living up to my hopes.

iPadOS 26 should come close but I’d need the software to allow more Mac-like behaviours (e.g. a non-Safari browser, desktop equivalent) for it to genuinely be my mobile computing go-to.

I’d given up all hope that the iPad would ever grow up. Now there’s a glimmer… but I’ve fallen for that before. I’m deep in the iPad rabbit hole so I suppose I just have to wait it out. I have a 16” MBPro which will remain my main portable computing device for a while yet.

Hope springs eternal…

It seems Apple figured that since I wasn’t holding my breath anymore it would resolve a metric ton of my concerns in one release. Proof of the pudding and all that but in the end this is a hugely positive sign and step for the iPad in my use case hopes. 

My biggest outstanding complaints will probably be how locked down/controlled the experience remains. It is still quite frustrating to use many apps on the iPad compared to how I use them on my Mac or other systems (I run Linux and Windows as well as macOS) and that may continue to be the case: for example iPad apps as mere containers of websites.

I feel mildly less idiotic for having decided the iPad isn’t worth it and then buying an M4 iPad Pro anyhow… 

sflocal said:

There is no way in hell where I would use a 3rd-party system that will have my credit card# on file.  I trust Apple in keeping my info private.  That Epic Games is also Chinese-owned makes my decision even more correct.

35% Tencent. While sizeable, it’s not the largest shareholder. Tim Sweeney remains that with 41.4%. Disney and Sony are also sizeable shareholders.

Otherwise agreed. To get me to pay outside of Apple has been difficult for anyone outside of Steam and streaming.

That said, I don’t think that the margins of 30% for App Store sales is tenable. It is what the market bears because it’s pretty standard in all things but it’s a holdover from physical store days and makes little sense. Somewhere between 20 and 25% seems more reasonable.