Every time I interact with Apple developers, I feel like I'm dealing with cult members.
They use language just differently enough to cause confusion. Well-established terms like "reference" get overloaded to have completely different meanings. They take industry-standard concepts that everybody understands and rebrand them with Apple-specific jargon so you never know exactly what they're talking about unless you also immerse yourself in their marketing materials.
They put up with utter garbage software like XCode and constant updates to it and its languages -- search for dealing with random string operations in Swift and you'll find answers for every version of Swift because they're all different and incompatible with each other.
You are noticing in-group / out-group social signaling. Apple developers are their own sub-culture, and they have signals and traits to prove it.
iClods have a lot of investment. They have spent years of their lives and 50% of every product purchase to stay in their group.
If they were rational, they would use the best tools for the job regardless of the branding. An objective analysis would put Apple dead last in value almost all the time. It follows that rational analysis has no place in their world.
It is a cult. It's the only way Apple stays afloat. If Apple releases a new iPhone that's exactly the same from the last one they released a month prior except it is .1mm thinner every Apple cultist will immediately go out and purchase it.
I think theyll do mediocre. It wont bomb like we think itll bomb. Ass creed in japan. Average gamer wont know. And with gaming being big... there is A LOT of average gamers. Itll probably perform similar to avowed.
Every time I interact with Apple developers, I feel like I'm dealing with cult members.
They use language just differently enough to cause confusion. Well-established terms like "reference" get overloaded to have completely different meanings. They take industry-standard concepts that everybody understands and rebrand them with Apple-specific jargon so you never know exactly what they're talking about unless you also immerse yourself in their marketing materials.
They put up with utter garbage software like XCode and constant updates to it and its languages -- search for dealing with random string operations in Swift and you'll find answers for every version of Swift because they're all different and incompatible with each other.
Skimming this article was no exception.
You are noticing in-group / out-group social signaling. Apple developers are their own sub-culture, and they have signals and traits to prove it.
iClods have a lot of investment. They have spent years of their lives and 50% of every product purchase to stay in their group.
If they were rational, they would use the best tools for the job regardless of the branding. An objective analysis would put Apple dead last in value almost all the time. It follows that rational analysis has no place in their world.
Yeah, I saw that in the VR presentation. Every term was changed.
It is a cult. It's the only way Apple stays afloat. If Apple releases a new iPhone that's exactly the same from the last one they released a month prior except it is .1mm thinner every Apple cultist will immediately go out and purchase it.
All 5 people who play games on Mac will be very happy.
I think theyll do mediocre. It wont bomb like we think itll bomb. Ass creed in japan. Average gamer wont know. And with gaming being big... there is A LOT of average gamers. Itll probably perform similar to avowed.
I think it will still reach at least veilguard levels or higher, sadly. I hope to be proven wrong.