Apple is always silent, because they know they have no justification for their bullshit.

No one thinks Apple, or any other ecosystem for that matter, is completely private. It’s just far more private than Android. Primarily because Apple is not an advertising company.

That was cringey as fuck but I guess get the word out in whatever way works

Pixel 4, for one

Not necessarily, some of them do. Probably not enough to warrant developing an app for it though.

…what was “obvious”, exactly? You haven’t even explained yourself, much less provided any sort of citation.

He was also called out on it, and even ADMITTED it! (Apologized) Then said he would be more open in the future. Note he didn’t say he would change, only that he would hide it less! Fool me once…

None of that ever happened. In fact he regularly declines sponsorships from various companies with ethical conflicts.

Also the incident where he was a total asshole to a small cooler developer, and used the prototype wrongly, then wouldn’t deliver it back, despite that was the agreement, and it was a pretty expensive prototype to make for a small company, and then he auctioned it away!

When you run a large company, this sort of dumb shit happens. He has since apologized, made the victim whole (or as whole as can be) and hired a CEO to handle logistics. You act like it was done maliciously.

Honestly in 3 years I never felt the need for any accessories, other than a 1TB SSD.

the S is not some kind of potato. It’s perfectly capable

It’s not. That’s what the OP and the comment you replied to were trying to tell you.

They explained why in the comment you replied to.

Not having lots of SKUs and a user-managed OS is kinda what the console experience is about.

I dunno what a “user managed OS” means. There’s no reason MS couldn’t port the exact same experience, considering current and past XBOXes are both built on x86.

As far as SKUs, I agree, but that’s only part of the console experience. The rest of it is a controller-first interface and streamlined processing. The various SKUs is also what attracts so many people to PC gaming, and in case you haven’t noticed, it is an incredibly quickly-growing segment.

I’m gonna refer you back to the original post.

Is it too late for that?

Why would it be?

those that do would probably prefer SetamOS…or something else that isn’t affiliated with Microsoft.

For whatever reason, millions of people obviously still prefer XBOX, in addition to or in place of, PC, Sony, Nintendo, etc. All this does is give those people more options.

or PopOS

PopOS does not deliver the console experience that I’m referring to.

You can’t buy your way past low-end hardware.

MS just needs to release a gaming OS. Just stop making XBOX hardware and make XBOX an operating system that can be installed on any PC. Like SteamOS.

We have Windows Pro, Windows Home, LTSC, etc. Why not Windows Gaming (XBOX)?

NEVA. SIFU is up next, got it free a couple days ago! Been mostly playing on desktop lately though (FFXVI)

Is it true that if you don’t use it, you lose it?

A note: I have entirely automated background updates. I have no idea how often it checks, or how often it updates.

Its less that they’re leanient and more that there’s no clearly-defined criteria for meeting it. Especially in terms of graphical fidelity or FPS.

I’m not understanding what you’re confused about here. What does any of that have to do with my comment? And why would they do that?