You’re Paying into a Broken System Whenever You Buy Something on iOS

Re:You’re Paying into a Broken System Whenever You Buy Somet... by scarface74 on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @02:42PM (#20567844)

Unless you have to optimize for the PS4 and PS4 Pro. But, what does ease of development have to do with one being more of a computer than the other?

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Re:You’re Paying into a Broken System Whenever You Buy Somet... by banachtarski on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @02:57PM (#20568005)

I'm telling you the difference between a console (or embedded platform) versus a general computing device. There is a blurry line to be sure, but the smartphone and a gaming console are clearly on opposite sides of the line. Consoles have dedicated hardware for antialiasing, texture streaming, etc.

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Re:You’re Paying into a Broken System Whenever You Buy Somet... by scarface74 on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @03:08PM (#20568101)

And iPhones have dedicated hardware for cellular, video decoding, decryption, a dedicated GPU, motion detection, face detection, etc....

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Re:You’re Paying into a Broken System Whenever You Buy Somet... by banachtarski on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @10:11AM (#20574539)

Are you implementing code for them? Virtually every computing device available (your desktop included) is an SoC.

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Re:You’re Paying into a Broken System Whenever You Buy Somet... by scarface74 on Thursday August 01, 2019 @01:57PM (#20586465)

Yes there are APIs targeting the GPU, the Mx coprocessor, the hardware decoder (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/videotoolbox), etc.

But why is that relevant to how one is a general purpose computer and the other isn’t?

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