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No, they don't need those apps, they literally just need one app, a well working remote desktop one.

They will never be a workstation because you will never get the amount of power you can get into your desktop, into your ski goggles. They could however, function as a perfectly good wireless monitor solution for an existing desktop. Strip out some of the processing power, make them smaller, lighter, and more comfortable, like the big screen beyond, and then tailor MacOS and iOS to use them as remote displays that let you put windows anywhere and you have your killer app: monitor replacements.

Look dude, Gabe Newell and Tim Sweeney are capitalists just like anyone else with a big business. They make decisions based on profit, not on doing the most good

Everyone who runs a big business has to understand how capitalism works, that does not mean they have to believe in it as a system, nor does it mean they have to make every decision to maximize profit at every possible step. Especially when the company is privately controlled.

Breaking Terms of Service to get on the Apple store wasn’t a fucking holy war to save gamers from an evil corporation, it was one evil corporation taking a stab at another evil corporation because they wanted a cut of the profits.

It was a shot in a million stab, and it was a stab that if landed, would give every single software developer more money, instead of Apple hoarding it for no reason.

Stop acting like since both sides are corporations, both of their arguments will lead to equally bad outcomes. This is literally just a false equivalency fallacy.

Valve sucks, Epic sucks, they all suck because they’re all capitalists dude. In the end, the money matters, not the gamers, they’re just the source of the money. They only ever do genuinely good things when forced to by outside parties.

Even if I accept your premise that it's impossible that Tim Sweeney is a human being motivated by human emotions and desires, it still does not matter, because Epic's crusade to break up monopolies will mean less money that Apple hoards for no reason, and more money going to the developers actually creating the software you use. It is an objectively better outcome.

There's a reason that EU regulators agree with Epic, and it's not because they're motivated by Epic's profit margins.

which is ironically the most monopolistic and anti-consumer OS right now.

Really? Because

a) Windows is objectively less monopolistic and anti-competitive than iOS and Android

b) and it is pretty much equal to MacOS in this regard.

Them supporting Windows isn't a matter of boosting the most anti-competitive OS, but following the easiest path, which is one of supporting anti-competitive OSes.

And yeah, overall, I would also prefer Epic to better support Linux. I'm hoping that Proton might convince them it's a low enough lift to do but I'm not exactly holding my breath.

This is of course, based on precisely nothing, but your feeling about PC exclusives on the Epic store, right?

This should not be surprising to anyone.

The literal only reason people think he's an asshole is because PC gamers got all butt hurt about Epic trying to use exclusive games to get their store off the ground and compete with Steam / consoles.

On the other side of that, he has repeatedly called out Microsoft, Apple, Google, et al for their monopolistic gatekeeping practices, and has spent Epic's Fortnite fortune intentionally launching massively expensive legal campaigns to get these monopolies broken up, have anti-trust law changed, and set legal precedents that they can't be so abusive.

Every PC gamer on Reddit and Lemmy praising Gabe Newell and shitting on Tim Sweeney, are quite frankly, insanely ill-informed at best, and flat out single-issue idiots at worst.

The "Tim Sweeney" is an asshole take, is the easiest way to spot the bottom tier of PC gamer.

Guy could have taken his Fortnite billions and built a compound in New Zealand to fuck off to, but instead he literally spent his fortune launching legal campaigns against the biggest monopolies in the world to break them up and actually change competition law going forward, both in Europe and the US, but PC gamers think he's an asshole because they tried to use exclusive games to get their store off the ground.

Get some perspective on the bigger picture.

Yeah, but the Quest 3 still isn't really great for remote desktop. It's a little too low res, and the headset itself is too heavy to wear for that long, though it certainly does feel like the devs are using them to dogfood, given how much they keep improving the remote desktop features.

Kinda surprised tbh. It was clearly DOA for gaming, but if anything, I think the Apple Vision Pro demonstrated that there is a potential market for a high end VR headset as a monitor replacement if you could get it small and light enough.

I'm guessing that focusing on just the Quest 3 / 3S chipsets let them focus and optimize everything way more overall though.