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Re:The new Mac Pro: The audacity to say “Yes” in a design cu... by ksec on Sunday April 16, 2017 @01:07AM (#14124445)
I have always wondered if Steve Jobs hated Gaming. There are simply no body in Apple who are gamers, and cares about the market. iPhone Gaming revenue was a pure coincidence. Even Gaming on Apple TV sucks.

As a matter of fact Gaming Desktop / Laptop is now the fastest growing! market despite the general decline in PC market as a whole.

Apple wanted to leverage the games and Metal API on iOS to be used in Mac, but the driver performance and support were appalling. No to mention the games on iOS are completely different to how games are played on Desktop and laptop. This just shows they dont actually understand gaming.

It is no wonder even John Carmack couldn't be bothered with them any more.

Yes, I am sure there are huge market for people to buy a Mac and run Windows for gaming, but that is unlikely in Apple's DNA to care.

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Re:The new Mac Pro: The audacity to say “Yes” in a design cu... by Stranger43 on Sunday April 16, 2017 @10:16AM (#14125869)
One of the things that Jobs did that nobody seams to want to remember was to market the computer as something else then a computer, i.e. his focus was never to make the best fastest or most advanced computer but to make a computer you could sell to people who were/are afraid of computers.
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