• @sixtyshilling@lemmy.world
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    201 year ago

    Apple has absolutely cornered the mobile market, so that’s probably why they don’t seem to be in any hurry to seriously support the PC gaming space.

    They tend to focus hard on niches they can overcome, and PC/console gaming is a little too established for them to stick their toes in. They tried with the Pippin and the pre-Halo era of gaming, but it didn’t work out for them.

    If the Apple headset takes off, they may start pushing harder for VR game support, but who knows?

    • @toothpaste_sandwich@feddit.nl
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      131 year ago

      Apple has absolutely cornered the mobile market

      Is this even true? I thought more people used Android phones?

      Perhaps you mean in the US, I hear things are different there.

    • Rayspekt
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      101 year ago

      Apple has absolutely cornered the mobile market

      Can we finally get a proper linux alternative to ios and android? I was researching on linux mobile last week and from what I’ve found it’s infinite times harder to get it to work than a linux pc. I just want a cheap, basic foss phone as a daily driver.

      • @mlg@lemmy.world
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        31 year ago

        Likewise google has cornered the android market by closely controlling how Google services like the playstore are allowed to be used.

        Which has unfortunately led to android requiring the stupid Google feed page on the left, overall lack of performance increases, and stagnated development of new features as many OEMs have dropped out.

        I wish linus would stop referring to android as Linux. It has become a blatant rip of FOSS to further google’s interests and is an insult to android’s own history considering just how much more advanced it was than iOS back when it became mainstream.

        Not to mention it still runs on ART which is basically just the mobile version of JVM which is still Java which runs like garbage compared to modern standards.

        It’s stupid seeing Java wrappers for basic things included with most Linux installs like rsync or ssh.

        I would pay serious cash money to see a Linux mobile OS developed but I just don’t see it happening anytime soon. Ubuntu is playing with it, but it’s still very limited and the UI is static AFAIK so you can’t easily change it without recompiling.