I use Mac, and I'm a PS5 user, so this may be a pretty good option (iPad) for MS exclusive games that I'm interested in. The one that's coming to mind is Hellblade 2. Gutted that that's an MS exclusive, but this could be a pretty cool alternative.
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Gotcha, that makes sense. I just tried NBA2K both ways and the lag was much less on remote play. Cloud gaming was pretty unresponsive when I would try to shoot.
You do own it and can do anything with it you want. Paint it, use it as a door stop, or how about use it as a vacuum cleaner? Since you want to use it as a vacuum cleaner, I guess Apple should have to put a lint collection holder on its IPhones.
Where you anti Apple people get the absurd sense of entitlement that Apple needs accommodate whatever you want to do after purchase is at the very best mystifying.
Hey I just bought a Maytag washing machine. Then I called them up to demand they allow me to add the GE washer web interface app. They said they don’t do that and I told them ‘I bought it and now I should be able to do anything I want with it!!’.
Apple and Maytag I’m sure will be working very hard on making their products do whatever anyone wants after purchase.
Just wow.
Maybe there’s some psychology behind this all. Some “investment” or “sunk cost” fallacy as the customers can associate having paid already, albeit incredibly minor, so the usual “already paid, invested in this, why not continue”.
Too much of a stretch maybe? Maybe not? 🤷♂️
This quite some take. Me like.
Maybe there’s a within reason middle ground but at that point I would say that it’s more about expectations: “I was expecting this thing I bought to do task A, B, C and vacuum cleaning, but it didn’t, hence I won’t buy it anymore and look for a better one that does it”.
I would like to also add, on the ownership of things for the sake of flames, we rarely really own anything at least in the advertised sense… a phone, PC, etc nowadays loses internet connection long enough and it gets seriously crippled. It will still work but so many of the features won’t.
If we stop paying the “property rights/taxes”, “car’s matriculation”, etc we basically are forbidden to use those owned things.
So many things “we own” are a very weak link away to feel like we don’t or taken away at least temporarily.
It’s a win because Apple said, “These are our rules to be on the App Store.”
Microsoft said, “No, we’ll do it via the browser.”
Apple said, “Great! That’s a solution we can agree on. Need help?”
Microsoft said, “Yeah, that’d be great, thanks!”
I think this will pave the way for many more powerful apps to be served on mobile devices. It's going to increase the usefulness and longevity of devices if "heavy" apps are completely (or partially) cloud based.
No need to try and Produce and render that 4k video on an iPad when it can be done on a powerful server off-site. Theres still plenty of reasons to have apps on device, but fewer reasons to increase processing speeds just so desktop class apps can run smoothly.
Some pretty good X-Box only games will be coming so I was wondering what to do as a Playstation user. This will solve the issue. Though, I can imagine Microsoft not putting AAA titles there as soon as they are released. They'll maybe do that after 3-4 months.
I tried both touch controls and an Xbox One S controller, and the latter was impressively smooth. I fired up my 2017 Mass Effect Andromeda save and everything was seamless from start to finish. Of course, I have a Wi-Fi 6 mesh network connected to 1.2Gig cable Internet, so my latency is not gonna be everyone else’s.
What greed? They have rules and Microsoft didn’t want to play by them, so they went with the web. If it works for you, use it. If you want a native experience, complain to Microsoft.
Apple can still feature cut webkit to destroy xCloud, or “accidentally” introduce a bug that leads to heavy lagging which is sooooooo difficult to find and fix. Apple platform must be forced to openness, also to allow other web engines to run.
Lol parent controls under iOS is non-sense BS, my kids constantly found a workaround, it became a running gag here at home, then I gave up iOS parents controls.
Anyway, it’s funny that Apple needs Microsoft to make macOS being able to have decent 3D games with decent graphics. ROFL, because macOS sucks for games, sounds like Microsoft is silently helping them out again, what a comedy…
I bet we’ll soon see a banner on Apple.com, making use of the situation: “Now you can finally play decent games on our crap platform, and on our low tech shared memory M1 cpu/gpu soup.”
I bet we’ll soon see a banner on Apple.com, making use of the situation: “Now you can finally play decent games on our crap platform, and on our low tech shared memory M1 cpu/gpu soup.”
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Played Forza 4 for an hour last night using an iPad Pro 11'' 2018 and a Dualsense controller. Bits of latency here and there. Overall a reasonable experience and used hardware I already owned so only the sub cost.
Well, seeing as how Apple helped Microsoft get it up and running, that doesn’t really fit into your narrative. BUT don’t let facts stop you
Apple’s selling roughly 10 million Macs a year to folks that have never owned a Mac before, maybe more in this last year. It appears that macOS doesn’t need decent 3D games with decent graphics to sell. Surprising, I know, but true!
Works well on the Mac mini M1 with an Xbox Series controller (you can set it up to dual connect between Xbox and Mac / Bluetooth). If you install Edge on the Mac, and configure Xbox Gaming as a PWA, there is no borders too. Works pretty well but there is input lag which is noticeable on games like Ori, where precision is key. Really nice start though, for those of us with Macs and Xbox.