Apple Has Sold Approximately 200,000 Vision Pro Headsets::Apple has sold upwards of 200,000 Vision Pro headsets, MacRumors has learned from a source with knowledge of Apple’s sales numbers. Apple began

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    As someone who has to support MacOS desktop It functionally is?

    Ok sure, it’s not as bad as Android or iOS, but it’s far from “anyone can simply download and run”

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      TIL Android is a walled garden.

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        Well, courts seemed to think so in the Epic v Google case

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          Google Play Store is, kinda, but Android itself is not.

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      How is it “functionally” walled? How is it far from “anyone can simply download and run”? It literally is just that. Anyone can download anything and run any unsigned code. I am baffled by the fact that all the people correcting you are getting downvoted.

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      You can literally run anything you want on MacOS

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        Except, what apple dont want you to run.

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          Incorrect. Apple does not need to approve or sign any code for it to run on any Mac.

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          Yes, Counter-Strike is available for MacOS.

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            ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ not according to steam, but regardless there are literally thousands of games that do not run on Macs so still an ignorant statement

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              I’m just curious of an example of a game or two you play that’s not available on Mac. There’s some newish tech that allows Macs to virtualize/emulate windows tech including DirectX 12. Not coming for you I’m just curious to test those waters.

              (I don’t play computer games, sorry for not knowing)

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                Virtualization means it’s not running on MacOS

                And, I don’t have a Mac so definitely not something I pay any attention to, but it’s pretty easy to see if a game on steam supports MacOS.

                Far Cry 6 doesn’t run on MacOS. I’d imagine most Ubisoft games don’t.

                Edit: oh, and Counter-Strike 2 Doesn’t play on MacOS. Apparently I had to be specific about the 2 version.

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      but it’s far from “anyone can simply download and run”

      But it is? You can just right click and run any apps from any source on macos.

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        Not sure why you’re getting downvoted on that. It’s factually accurate. You can easily run unsigned code from anywhere on a Mac, unwalled, no problem. I’ve got a SAB / radarr / sonarr / HASS server running on old hardware with a current OS and it’s great.

        Also isn’t Xcode free? So you can literally “simply“ download, develop, and run