anlumo @ anlumo @lemmy.world

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The bigger question is, will developers be able to talk to their USB-C equipment without an MFi chip?

There are a bunch of fundamentally different approaches to designing game engines, and every single one is very different in that regard. There’s no way to find a common denominator.

They also made the announcement right after an iPhone announcement. Unfortunately, the iPhone was completely underwhelming, so the news didn’t get buried like they probably expected.

I'm sorry to stifle your expectations, but if you’re working on that project on your own, you’re very unlikely to reach the 200k/year revenue necessary to trigger this new pricing scheme.

I think that we've reached the peak of that form factor. Every real change will have to deviate so much that we wouldn’t call it smartphone any more.

Big corporations need service contracts. If something in the engine is broken where it impacts the game in development, engineers are flown in to fix it at the customer's site (if that’s necessary). That’s not something available with most open source tools.

There are some rumors floating around that employees did try to stop this before it went public, but they failed. I agree that they can’t do much now anyways.

He had easily treatable cancer if diagnosed early enough (which it was). He refused treatment, because he insisted on curing himself only using his exclusively fruit-based diet.

When that didn’t help (what a surprise), he finally caved and did try to get treatment, but by then it was too late.

I still don't get how a guy with such brilliant insight could be an absolute moron in other areas (such as his personal medical treatment)…

Source 2 is ancient and doesn't even come close to modern Unity. Unity added a lot of modern stuff in the last few years (obviously) like physically-based rendering, which make a world of a difference in games.

They'd sell off the IP, and somebody else would continue licensing out the engine. Development might be dead, but that doesn't matter for already released games anyways.

If there'd be truly no successor, people could just continue using their existing Unity engine binary, since there'd be nobody to stop them.

What's weird to me is that CEOs should know all about accounting and financials. He should have realized that this pricing model is unsustainable for most Unity developers, because many make less than what he's asking for per install themselves.

It's clear that professional CEOs don't know anything about tech, but this isn't a tech issue.

He has to pay back his debts, and Musk likes to be paid in praise.

It’s not phoning home to the developer, but Unity.

Same thing, the medium is just copper instead of air. That’s why they need a ton of shielding.

There is optimization. Every frame in the gif can define a rectangle it’s drawn in on top of the previous image. This works fine for reduced color animations (like cartoons), but of course breaks completely for videos.

The word you’re looking for is “federated”.

Apple produces hardware at a scale not imaginable to mortal people. When they want to use a chip in their phone, they just buy up the chip's factory's entire production run for the next few years.

Apple was the only company that had no shortages during the chip troubles of 2020/21/22. That’s because they plan ahead. They have a logistics person at the helm, and it’s very visible.

All of this naturally leads to ridiculous planning cycles.

Bevy is a very different kind of beast. It’s basically “here’s the ECS, have fun!” while it rides into the sunset.

My next project will use bevy, but mostly because its API is so ridiculously small that I can map it entirely into my own engine (which then exposes the ECS through my own API). That would be a lifetime's task with Unity (don’t know enough about Godot to say definitely, but I bet it’s the same, since it has the same architecture).

Well, glad that I switched away from Unity in 2016. The competition by the Unreal Engine caused some really weird business decisions back then.