Apple cuts Tim Cook's pay 15% for missing sales goals

Re:Apple cuts Tim Cook's pay 15% for missing sales goals by legohead on Friday January 06, 2017 @12:56PM (#13338468)

Next upgrade I'm moving to MS Surface or something similar. The dongle thing did it for me, which is pretty sad.

I was also a bit surprised to find out that 95% of the gaming market is still on PC [1]. Guess I was a disillusioned Mac user, but I thought Mac was bigger in games.

[1] http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/

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Re:Apple cuts Tim Cook's pay 15% for missing sales goals by r00fus on Friday January 06, 2017 @06:00PM (#13341106)

You're not disilliusioned, the Mac always was a niche player for games.

Everyone for the past 2 decades knows you don't buy a Mac for games.

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Re:Apple cuts Tim Cook's pay 15% for missing sales goals by ashark on Friday January 06, 2017 @01:32PM (#13338842)

Part of it's probably availability of games on the platform (which has gotten better but is still poor), but part of it's because you can buy both a lower-end Mac (an Air, say, or an entry-level MBP) and build a pretty nice gaming PC for less than the cost of just a gaming-capable mac.

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Re:Apple cuts Tim Cook's pay 15% for missing sales goals by dasil003 on Friday January 06, 2017 @02:40PM (#13339482)

Also as far as I know you can't bypass OS X's video compositing which adds latency to the rendering, which means that for latency sensitive games you will not be as competitive as a PC.

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