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LMAO
This feels about right for the "Please maintain a $100+ per year developer subscription for the privilege of your apps just being signed on our desktop platform" company. They genuinely feel like everyone owes them for making things on their devices because...? Like that attitude never made any sense?
🦊I get: Video game for free
You get:
🦊"make us an app for the vision pro"
what do I get in return? money?
"no"
"recognition?"
"no :)"
typical apple move though, since they seem to hate games and game developers
Good lord I knew Apple knew nothing about games but I didn’t realize things were THIS dire 0_o
I see this as just more evidence that Apple has no confidence there's a real VR market; if one shows up, they'll try to serve it, but everything about the Vision Pro screams "Okay, here's the best device we can put together; show us it's got a market, we'll do more with it."
i'm reminded of the local games startup that was offering amounts as low as 2,400 for games for their platform. somehow still better than apple
Sounds about right. It's well known that the Vision Pro was a Shareholder Sacrifice, a product pushed out to meet the demands of the morons demanding it, but internally there was little to no enthusiasm for the project. Most of Apple's financial assistance for gaming right now is going to the big publishers to try and court them to use the Metal translation tools to get like, RE running on all the M -chips. Apple's doing a pretty big, if tentative, push back into gaming (Divinity Original Sin 2 on iPad is a treat), but the porting toolkits are still only like a year old.
lmao this is extremely surprising
even Microsoft isn't that shitty, Microsoft once approached us to port our Slack b2b thing to Teams and just funded us outright for that without any extra strings attached (off the top of my head it was like $40k USD for dev costs); and it was worth it for me because having subscriptions off Teams is a nice income stream too. this wasn't a game, either!
apple is
just
lmao
This makes me think of that SPOTIFY MUSIC CAR THING that literally does nothing but be a Bluetooth connection to the phone you already have and will stop working the end of this year. Big Tech has gotten so quick with obsoleting their own products into landfill tech waste that they're basically matching indie startups at this point.
