Again, you confuse your anecdotal experience with the larger community of gamers. As I told you, it depends on which games you play.

Backwards compatibility does not mean old games do not take advantage of newer directx features over time.

You are likely also considering only running an old binary. Things can get more complicated as you use newer compiler releases and linked to more modern versions of windows and directx libraries. Sometimes older APIs are deprecated, spitting out warnings, and you modernize the code to match the current development environment.

Doubtful. The prevailing attitude at most studios is “not our problem”. Windows is our target, Wine and Proton can deal with Linux based problems.

Not extensions, the kernels themselves. A build system for a project may include different source files depending on the target platform (macOS or iOS). An individual source file may use conditional compilation to use different blocks of code within a source file depending on the target platform. Apple’s header include tons of such conditions. The code the compiler spits out is different.

You confuse Mach, etc presenting a common API with a common internal implementation. The implementations differ depending on the platform.

You can deny reality all you want to.
Yet some gamers have to wait weeks for Wine, etc to get a patch.
Yet macOS and iOS have different kernel and OS implementations.
Yet web apps have a notification letting them know when a focus steal occurs so they can deal with it appropriately.

This problem needs to be solved by references, ask AI, people, is this program safe before installing.

Google is now adding more rules to make sideloading more difficult while Apple never provided a way to sideload an app in the first place. People need to be able to build and load their own apps without permission from the OS manufacturer, a phone is a computer with specialized hardware, we do have ability to build and run apps on our own hardware.

Agree in spirit, but if one vendor breaching one contract means you're instantly and irreparably out of business overnight... You second-source it or do it in-house!

No court order in the world can un-burn a dollar.

Then we're going to need a lot more funnels to refill all those toothpaste tubes.

If you removed every foreign-made product from a typical Walmart, you'd basically be left with a steel-frame building stripped to the beams.

If you replaced every one of those products with an American version - You'd have Niemann Marcus plus Erewhon, with some products simply not available at any price (short of bespoke).

There already was an “Install” button.

It sounds like the judge is ordering google to remove a dialog that removes information text. You know the place where legal info usually is displayed.

So the judge wants to remove requiring a user to see a legal document before proceeding?

Is that grounds for appeal? Some sort of “ineffective representation” applied at the judge level rather than attorney level?

Target recognition. For example a particular building in a city.

In an electronic warfare environment using visual identification is an important capability. Note “visual” is not necessarily limited to the human visual spectrum.

Your ignorance is showing. Currently maintained games often require patches as new versions of windows and direct X come out. This can lead to changes needed in wine for example. And such changes will occur in higher profile games while lower profile games wait. You can deny other people’s experiences. You can deny Google’s findings. The fact remains I was one of the devs doing those periodic updates and despite Linux not being a target, I was testing under Wine and coding the changes to minimize the impact on wine. The need for it to be patched. I was a rareity doing so in the industry, being supported by senior management who thought it was cool 2% of our customers were running under Linux.

Then your statement is ignorant BS. The kernels different, each containing platform specific code.

Details in previous posts prove otherwise.

Your ignorance is showing again.

You need to re-read that wiki.

A silly opinion.

Another silly opinion.

The contractor requirements were incorporated into the legislation that created and funded the project.

From the wall street short term performance focus only.

Being properly prepared coming out of high school does not make these STEM classes easy. It still requires a lot of work for the intro classes at the university level. These are not general ed classes. These are part of the standard first year that the majors are taking. These classes are not at all like those from high school. They are deeper and more rigorous.

Regarding history and memorization, that is high school history not university level. At the university level the concern is not about names, dates, and places like high school. There is a shift into why a particular decision was made. What influence the decisions makers, Its actually more interesting this way. And for those taking the university level STEM classes too, often considered far easier.

Renewables are increasing becoming delayed through court actions just like nuclear. We’ve had a wind project off of Massachusetts delayed over a decade. Some of it is NIMBY. Some of it is environmentalist, a local solar project prevented because it would destroy habitat belonging to some endangered critter.

The point is building nuclear and renewables displaces fossil fuel faster. Again, avoiding nuclear does nothing other than prolong fossil fuel use. Also, some newer reactor designs have an important secondary role. They can consume some of our store nuclear waste as fuel. That would be an important cleanup, avoid long term storage expenses we still have not figured out.

As we increase electrification of our economy and daily lives we are going to have increasing demand. Southern california is already struggling to meet current demand. Brownouts increasingly common during the summer. If the state achieved its goal of mandating EVs things would get far worse wrt demand.

Reality is that EV adoption will not be as fast as California wants. And renewable plant buildouts will not be as fast as advocates hope. And battery and other storage solutions will bot appear as fast as advocates desire. And this means we will just continue building more natural gas plants to backup renewables. We should be build nuclear, demand is going to be increasing for decades.

Not quite, newer reactor designs are far safer. Some failure scenarios of the past no longer possible.

Negligent operations that (1) can be addressed by regulation and oversight, if (2) not avoided by using newer designs. If southern california we have a coastal reactor. It could conceivably lose power for cooling. Besides onsite backup generators, additional mobule backup generators are stored on a nearby UIS Marine Corps base. The Marines have ample heavy air lift capability to deliver these backup if needed. But again, newer designs can avoid the failure mode in the first place.

Again, we are talking about complementing renewables, not displacing them. The SMRs would still be able to provide backup when renewables are not operational. We have not really solved the storage problem. We are still building natural gas plants. SMRs could displace these gas plants.

The 1960s/70s Green movement, including greenpeace pretty much lumped in nuclear power with nuclear weapons. Greenpeace vigorously opposed it all.

And I expect we will continue building natural gas plants as renewables and storage tech do not deliver as hoped, as demand massively increases as we increasingly electrify.

"its suggested commission gives it fair compensation for the App Store platform."

Which is a pretty bold claim given this is specifically targeting devs/publishers who don't want to use their walled garden but have no choice if they want an audience of more than a few dozen hardcore geeks.

Never mind "under that approach, the fee would be zero" - Under that approach, the fee should be negative! People are actively trying to work around Apple's lock-in. I can't speak for everyone, but I usually don't go out of my way to avoid beer and BJs.

That’s not true for any Windows game. They are inherently dependent upon updates to match Windows APIs, DirectX APIs, etc.

Even 70% is far far from you original "are exactly the same”.

We’ll see, Apple has fixed other bugs that enabled exploits.

Focus steal is a subset of losing focus. The example you offered describes losing focus.

It seems an opinion in this case.

You got it backwards. What you claimed is what happenedin old Windows 10l It is Windows 10 and 11 that act otherwise to your claim.

Actually human/computer interaction has a lot of literature that says otherwise.

You are speaking of prior to Windows 10. Windows 10 and 11 alls losing that focus. See wiki above.

That’s not what I am referring to. I am reffering to 3rd party code getting it inserted into the input processing hierarchy.

Annoyed is a valid opinion. The fact remains that the app could have done something to warn the user, hidden the portion of the password already entered, etc.