I don't think they have to give them anything, more people will buy their game if it is certified. This has already been a thing for Steam Deck Certified titles, which doesn't even mean much.

No.

Longer answer, you could buy lots of third party displays that worked perfectly well with Macintosh computers (and you still can) so that also means Apple can fail to sell you a display by not integrating it.

The iPad is absolutely capable of running Mac OS, but it's artificially restricted from doing so, in an effort to make you buy Mac OS. And there are Macintoshes which could easily run iOS, but they don't let you do that.

This distinction was created artificially and intentionally both to enforce a certain style of use and to sell more devices. The first thing is a marketing decision, that's understandable and even reasonable. The second thing is also a marketing decision which is also understandable, but repugnant.

There's no reason why Apple could not have simply let you run in both modes on both kinds of hardware, allowing you to choose, and to provide user interface standards for both types of interface — and allow apps to implement one thing or both. And there's no reason why they can't switch to doing that.

The question of whether they should be forced to do so is a lot more complicated, and even I'm not sure they should. But it's telling that Android is embracing Linux as the devices continue to get closer together, while Apple is still trying to distance their platforms from one another. But they're ultimately doing their customers a deliberate disservice. As Linux continues to improve, perhaps more slowly than it "should" but still doing so, there becomes less reason to stick with their artificially limited forced duality.

That's what the iDevices are now. They're artificially limited to try to get people to buy both an iDevice and a Macintosh.

Your argument doesn't represent "effort" anyway. We have protestors against Israel because we are funding Israel. We aren't funding Putin yet. When we are, we can have protests about that, too.

Your whataboutism is whataboutism because you're ignoring obvious facts in order to support your argument. What about this? The answer is obvious. But you're sure that there's some other answer.

It's really whether or not government is in control of corporations, and of course the answer is yes. And that's where the "both sides" argument becomes non-fallacious: both Democrats and Republicans are united on giving them that control, and capital doesn't maintain the commons. It only wants to exploit it.

Indeed: The military-industrial complex has been the home of technology since time was time. Many technological developments have come out of military research. The space program is also essentially military, so its developments can be counted here as well.

You're asking Valve to cut itself off from sales, and make itself unfriendly. What makes Valve appealing to gamers and license holders alike is that games can be on it almost no matter what (they even allow adult games) and there are only some labeling requirements.

What would be more beneficial to me than banning games is to provide in-app compatibility information, so I don't have to go to protondb.

https://xkcd.com/927/

We got here from somewhere else. But for the record, I blame Microsoft, and I blame 3dfx for enabling them. If 3dfx had done MiniGL from the start instead of GLIDE, then we would probably have never had Direct3D. Microsoft had a basic, software-only OpenGL renderer which was famously used for screensavers like "pipes" and would have likely gone with OpenGL if it was already dominant.

But in the early days of PC video accelerators, everyone had to have their own API, and there were a ton of competing GPUs. There were around half a dozen versions of Mechwarrior II which supported different video cards — I had at least two of them, as I bought a whole bunch of those different cards to try them out. Besides VooDoo 1 and 2 in their times, and then eventually tnt, tnt2, and a gf2mx which are all kind of after the period in which this story occurs, I had a Mystique (ugly), and a PowerVR (slow), and a Permedia 2 which was actually the best of all of them at the time but just a little slower than 3dfx. I know I'm forgetting another one that I had as well, and I didn't even have all of them! Now we have all of three GPU makers, and Intel is looking shaky again...

I'm super thankful that we have Vulkan now and didn't start going back to vendor-specific standards. I think you can chalk this up to complexity. Nobody wants to have to support such things when it takes so much work to switch APIs.

Nobody said it was an invalid comparison. That is not what defines whataboutism.

It's whataboutism because the comparison is not relevant to the conversation.

You don't get to decide what is or is not a mic drop when you don't understand the words being used.

In fact we had that here fairly recently, some older people who lost their home and had nowhere to go squatted in it and burned it down with a candle, with themselves inside of it.

Wars they didn't start, except with terrorism?

What you said didn't contradict what I said in any way, so it was purely worthless whataboutism.

I learned to recognize that kind of shit in grade school.

Wise up.

Why don't you try learning to read without making things up sometime? I never claimed that the poor fucker turned into hamburger wasn't killed. What I said is that you're a gullible toolbag because you believe that Trump was shot with no evidence.

The way Trump got elected is that republicans have been fucking up education since Reagan. You want to blame the Democrats?

Cold doesn't burn down buildings, and unless they are in the path of a glacier... Ok, that's snarky, there's hail and snow and such. But go ahead and price insurance for those.

You can also dual boot Windows on the steam deck. Presumably you will soon be able to dual boot steam OS on some Xbox branded hardware like the Asus ROG Xbox Ally (do I have the name in the right order? Whatever.)