Re: comments on ... Re: What's Missing in Mac OS
Re: comments on ... Re: What's Missing in Mac OS
- Subject: Re: comments on ... Re: What's Missing in Mac OS
- From: Matthew Egan <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 15:35:41 -0800
Before you continue to spew your nonsense any further.
The DEVELOPERS decide what platform a game is released to. Not the
Platform itself.
I am the Gaming Editor for The One Ring Inc, I deal every day with
Electronic Arts and Vivendi Universal in the interests of their Lord of
the Rings franchise. When a game comes to a platform it is not the
platform that decides it, it's the other platform that decided not to
bid to keep it off of the first. PS2 vs. XBox is a big constant
conflict, yet when Universal is concentrating their efforts for
Middle-earth Online they state that due to the ease of porting a game
to OS X you should expect to see this MMORPG on OS X at the SAME time
it'll be out for the PC.
Don't blame Apple, blame the Developers.
On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 03:07 PM, Karan Misra wrote:
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Unfortunately this is becoming heated
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Windows does the messenger thing:
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1. it's good
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2. Mac OS doesn't have it, please accept it
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3. the "deamons" or "tasks" in Windows take up a fraction of the
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processor time compared to the full app
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You cannot justify Apple's ignoring the Mac games market because of the
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consoles because some games are best played on computers (strategy) and
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this is a very silly excuse for simply supporting Apple's actions. We
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are all Mac users, passionate about our computers but I'm afraid we
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must accept the shortcomings of our systems and this is what exactly
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this debate is about.
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I think I am justified in making the above statements. Others should
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also respond to this thread
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Thanks
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Karan Misra
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On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 09:56 PM, Matt Johnston wrote:
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> On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 03:01 pm, Karan Misra wrote:
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>> These messengers do not provide ANY facility with which they can
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>> launch upon *detecting* an active Internet connection. There is no
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>> debate here. Only on Windows, does this happen.
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> I don't want to get further into this because i know how Windows does
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> this and it's completely off topic. If you want
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>> Plus, launching the full application on login slows down the login
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>> process.
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> You don't think that the launching of these "daemons" or "tasks" in
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> Windows takes the login process time?
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>> And if Apple are not concentrating on the gaming aspect of Macs,
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>> well....., its just *bad*. You can't expect to sell to consumers
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>> (many of whom are under 18) who want to play games. Actually, games
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>> have become super-popular on computers and have led to the
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>> development of the game consoles.
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> And the development and subsequent ascendancy of the games consoles is
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> the primary reason that Apple doesn't give a fig about games.
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> M
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