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?
Apple might be getting all the profit, but I really wouldn’t compare iOS gamers to Steam gamers. Feels like vastly different use cases for the types of games people buy (unless there’s people out there playing Candy Crush on a deck, which…. Why??)
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.
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.
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?
Is this even true? I thought more people used Android phones?
Perhaps you mean in the US, I hear things are different there.
Sure, but also Apple is one company with a ~30% of the worldwide mobile market share while a bunch of companies make up the Android share.
I see what you mean, that is very impressive. Still, I think being a successful company still doesn’t give a status of “cornering the market”.
Apple might be getting all the profit, but I really wouldn’t compare iOS gamers to Steam gamers. Feels like vastly different use cases for the types of games people buy (unless there’s people out there playing Candy Crush on a deck, which…. Why??)
Even in the US it’s not “cornered,” it’s 53% iOS, 45% Android and 1% other.
It’s more useful to look at sales dollars in this context. Apple absolutely dominates in most desirable markets at its chosen price bracket.
Mobile game devs are making their games with iOS in mind, because iPhone users are more likely to pay.
Good point. I’m not sure what you’re arguing, though.
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.
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.