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@gruber It’s even more ridiculous when you compare the Neo to the A16 iPad plus its $250 (!!) Magic Keyboard Folio
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@colincornaby "Plays your Xbox console & PC games” is a quote from the presentation today, and I feel like "PC games" has to mean “anything you can run on a Windows PC today”.
Navigating all the garbage of launchers won't be much fun with only a controller though…
Navigating all the garbage of launchers won't be much fun with only a controller though…
@colincornaby I'm still confused about how this could work. If the Xbox hardware price is still subsidized, how does MS make their money back when you can buy everything from Steam, or use the PC version of Fortnite that MS won’t get a 30% cut from?
And if the price isn't subsidized, it costs $800-1000 and gets laughed at when the PS6 costs hundreds less.
Maybe they have multiple options: a subsidized box that costs $600 but can only run Xbox games, and one that runs PC games but costs $900?
@djwudi It's funny because Microsoft is also posting pictures of old Xbox dev kits today https://www.theverge.com/tech/892947/microsoft-teases-some-sort-of-xbox-dev-kit-reveal-at-gdc
@rosyna Ah, now I see why you were asking about ExternalAccessory. I think ExternalAccessory will only show accessories supporting protocols that your app has declared support for (UISupportedExternalAccessoryProtocols in Info.plist). Also accessories need to list all the apps that can use their protocols in their MFi product plan, and then App Review enforces that (so apps can't just use any protcool they want).
@never_released @dougall @saagar @alexr @siracusa New in Xcode 26.4b3: đź‘‹ M5 Pro/Max.
CPUFAMILY_ARM_SOTRA (H17S) contains P-cores and M-cores, and there's now a CLUSTER_TYPE_M enum to go with TYPE_E and TYPE_P.
CPUFAMILY_ARM_SOTRA (H17S) contains P-cores and M-cores, and there's now a CLUSTER_TYPE_M enum to go with TYPE_E and TYPE_P.
At the risk of being hyperbolic: is the MacBook Neo throwing the iPad under the bus?
For $599 you can now buy a 128GB A16 iPad ($350) + Magic Keyboard Folio ($250)…or a 256GB A18 Pro MacBook Neo.
$250 for the keyboard has always felt excessive, now it’s just absurd.
I’d love to see the Magic Keyboard Folio come down to $150, along with the expected A18 iPad upgrade.
@rosyna Likely not used much anymore, anything Bluetooth that wants to talk to an app uses BTLE and CoreBluetooth now.
But an app that wants to talk to anything on a car head unit would still use ExternalAccessory. This isn't common anymore (CarPlay is much better at this sort of thing) but older cars are still around. For example PandoraLink uses a custom protocol over EA to talk to the head unit.
@ismh86 A Steve Jobs-autographed…Multple Scan 15 manual? With “I love manufacturing!”???
