Oh aren't you clever. No Windows boots in seconds.
With a decent SSD and a decent CPU. I would not put it past some companies to still be running with CPUs that barely pass minimum requirements and using the slowest HDDs.
The alternative is developing a progressive web application (PWA) that runs in Safari instead of a native iOS application.
Considering that Grab has building iOS apps for over 12 years instead of developing PWAs, I would guess they know more about their business than you. Have you presented your ideas to Grab?
You never had any brothers or cousins doing double suplexes to each other after watching WWF? Your anecdotal evidence is discounted by mine. And since mine is real I think I have a case.
1. Wresting was on TV long before video games. 2. Brothers and cousins were hitting each other slingshots and rocks long before TV was invented. 3. Your anecdotal evidence does not "discount" everyone else. It only reflects your ego that you think that it does.
but they said they are "saving" this much money, so doesn't enter the cost.
Like many things in the cloud, the flexibility was probably they could add/remove more machines easily with no long term commitment. The problem with cloud has always been at some point, the cost of leasing is greater than building on premises as the number of machines/data/bandwidth reached a certain threshold.
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If cost savings is the goal, they could save a lot more by switching to Windows, or better yet, Linux.
Only if saving money was the only goal and nothing else. In this case, not being able to develop iOS apps using Windows or Linux is a significant obstacle over any cost savings.
This seems weird, I've never heard of a company using Macs as servers. Desktops, yes, but servers?
Then you haven't been paying attention. Since the Mac Mini launched many, many companies have used them as servers. The main reason is they offer high performance per watt in a small package. The demand is high enough that companies offer custom racks for Mac Minis for higher density in cabinets.
Repatriation makes sense for expensive edge cases, like running Apple hardware (which is a questionable architectural decision).
And why is it a questionable decision? Currently, the M series chips are the best in performance per watt and can beat Ryzen chips in some benchmarks. For Grab, since they need Macs for iOS development, what alternative do you propose?
Seriously, the reason why there are so-called "hosted Macs" in the cloud is so you can develop and test shit on a Mac without buying one. Use actual server technologies for your servers.
If you read the story, the main reason they are going away from a cloud based solution was cost. As the number of Macs increased over 200, they found that buying their own hardware was cheaper. The major change for Grab is they own the Mac hardware now instead of renting it.
Those ridiculous Mac Mini servers were the worst idea ever.
In this story, Grab is replacing 200 Mac Mini servers they are renting on the cloud with 200+ Mac Mini servers they have on premsises:
“We have got four 42RU (600x1200x42RU) racks housing 200+ Mac minis, plus some spare racks to house upcoming scheduled capacity upgrades,” Grab’s post states
Obviously Grab does not think Mac Mini servers as "the worst idea ever".
What pushes some demographics to participate in street take overs . . .
Maybe you should read the histories of 19th century real life Gangs of New York
It's got to come from somewhere, rap music is a big suspect, but video games like GTA make it much more 'real'. I don't think it's coming from rampant reading of books...
The Bible has depicted violence for millenia. The Iliad by Homer. Books by depict violence since the 1700s. It appears that basis of your arguments is recency bias.
Out of the box, the Xbox Series X is slightly better hardware than the regular PS5. it's not really enough to matter, especially on a mutliplatform game, but since you asked...
The problem for Microsoft this generation is their own policies have hampered games on the X. Microsoft requires any games developed for the X must have feature parity with games on the S. However, the S has weaker hardware than the PS5. In some cases like Baldur's Gate 3, the Xbox launch was delayed as they had development issues on the S that was only alleviated when Microsoft waived that specific requirement. Many other game developers simply optimized their games for the S instead of optimizing for both. As a result many games that have come out on the X do not run as well as the same game on the PS5. Developers on the PS5 only need to optimize games once as the main difference between the two PS5 consoles was the optical drive.
That glamorizing this sort of game is directly responsible for the recent phenomenon of crime in US cities? Street take overs, rampant looting during peaceful protests and even sports team wins(or losses), shoplifting, carjacking, etc?
No. As someone who has killed many a demon with a chainsaw starting 30 years ago as a youth, I have yet to buy a chainsaw in my adult age for any reason or even to hunt down demons. Also I have not captured any magical creatures with an orb and made them fight other magical creatures. As an adult that has had to fix my own plumbing, I find that skill does not require hitting boxes marked with "?" and strangely my pipes are not inhabited by turtles. Games glamorizing violence ignores the fact that before that "movies glamorize violence" and before that "radio glamorize violence" and before that "books glamorize violence."
Exactly. You're 100% right on the definition and seem to have a lack of understanding about Steam itself. There are *NO* substitutes in the PC gaming. Substitute doesn't mean "build your own" or just "do something else", it means "achieve the outcome" in the economic sense.,/quote>
WTF are you talking about? A developer can sell their game on Microsoft or Epic or GOG or (alternate store) and never on the Steam store if they wanted.(And they have). Developers will miss out on a lot of sales if they choose to ignore Steam. There is huge river of difference between NO substitutes and less desirable substitutes when it comes to sales for a developer. For the consumer, the major obstacle for them is if the developer chooses to sell their game on that store.
For developers Steam literally ticks every box you mentioned. They are a single seller.
Only if you ignore the fact this is not true for every game. This is only true for some games and ONLY if the developer chooses Steam as the only store. You seem to ignore that. That's like saying the local farmers market has a monopoly on local produce because some local farmers only sell their vegetables there instead of other options. SOME is not ALL.
(the alternatives lack customers, lack platform market share, and lack the APIs and options provided), there are no substitutes, price is inelastic (Steam set the entire industry price, they are often cited in the Google / Apple antitrust suits),
Considering that developers set prices, this is basically untrue.
and there's a high barrier to entry (Epic has so far spent $4bn without providing a viable substitute, EA, has abandoned its attempt at an App store).
The fact that Epic store exists just destroys your argument. The characteristic is "high barrier to entry" not every alternative must be the same.
It actually is, because market power is the one thing that underpins literally every characteristic you mentioned. Without market power you don't get the characteristics. Without those characteristics you don't have market power.
What kind of doublespeak is this? You just said the opposite in the statement above. To make your argument, you had ignore the rest of your post as well as posting basic misunderstanding as well as outright lies.
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