If Apple Work Serious On Games, Will It Dominate PC Industry?


Means all the Mac can play all the PC games as well

This post has been edited by Balok: Feb 14 2008, 06:57 PM

Huh?

games are not develop by them...
Even Microsoft doesnt really develop games..

Its the other companies that develop games and they choosed MS platform.

if Apple can make more people use mac, why not?

mac can already run windows. so what else u need

One of the biggest reasons is because they are not really big on the whole "upgrading your PC to play the latest game" business structure.

Their whole concept of buying a mac is so you don't need to upgrade your PC every few months to run applications. For PC gamers, they WANT to upgrade their components every few months to get the best graphics and gameplay. Take Crysis...... almost every PC gamer had to upgrade either their processor or graphics card or RAM (or all 3) in preparation to play it. Also, Apple wants things to be as unified as they possibly can. With the hundreds of variants of hardware for the PC, everyone is bound to run into Hardware/Software incompatibility somewhere down the line. Elsewhere Apple wants to offer a problem free computer out of the box and able to run without any hassles. That's their whole marketing strategy.

Apple doesn't want to open their platform to 3rd party hardware vendors, because their main business model is hardware first, software second. So if their rice bowl is the excellent build, yet expensive hardware parts, why would they give the license out to outside vendors?

u have the point there blacktrix, thats make Apple soo expensive. Where i dont find any of my frens modifying his Mac.

it is like comparing a skyline GTR with a BMW M5 . where the GTR is a car mean for tuner , the reason ppl buy it is not becasue of the speed, is the sheer pleasure of modifying it .

Btw, that's not the point here. Like current apple product lines.. All of the mac machines are mobile based (laptop component) and how can you "modify" it? except mac pro. And as a matter of fact, there got some ppl who try to use normal market brand of graphic card for their mac pro. Some it works but some don't. So it is quite "hard" to modify. Even you got the hardware but it also need the software (drivers) to work. Usually Apple FIX everything, and they won't want others to "modify" it. And now that's where the hackintosh comes into.

Eh? Just like every other company, Apple too wants you to go out and buy their latest product. Jobs has said himself that everyone should get a new iPod every year.

Also Apple computers aren't problem free. They crash and blip just like a PC, only less frequently and more graciously.

Beautifully Done Inferno.

Most of the folks who used to customize Macs have either moved on to PCs, or customize PCs to run Mac OS. You will find them on the Hackintosh thread.