[QUOTE="gameguy6700"][QUOTE="sgac"]What you have to bear in mind is that OS-X is actually just as capable of gaming as Windows is, it's just that the 2 OS's use different API's for grpahics etc. It just so happened that the gaming industry chose Microsoft's DirectX (wouldn't be too surprised if Microsoft put s lot of money behing the industry for it's propreitry programming language mind you), rather than openGL (which is what Linux, Mac OS-X etc all use). Most of the games on Windows could easily be done on the Mac too if they used OpenGL, though that will not happen for evry game released as it would be too much money to create 2 versions of a game engine, still I am glad to see more focus on the Mac gaming front, more competion is surely a plus in anybody's book.
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That doesn't change the fact that OSX has a tiny gaming library and is thus unfit for gaming. Maybe in an alternate universe where openGL beat out DirectX things would be different except that...oh no wait, Apple still overcharges you to a criminal extent for crappy hardware. OK, assuming that openGL succeeded and that Mac fanboys were willing to build their own computers instead of buying one from Apple (man this is one crazy alternate universe), then maybe OS X and Windows would both be good platforms for gaming. Now thing is OS X still wouldn't have as many games as Windows since Windows would still have 90% market share...unless we also assume that in our comically absurd universe that Microsoft never managed to crush Apple, in which case THEN Mac and PC might both be viable gaming platforms.
How'd you work out that Windows would still have 90% market share if both platforms were equal on graphics terms? The fact is that Ms Windows is just by the very series of events THE OS that is installed on about 90% of PC's out there, despite having multiple other OS's to choose from, your average joe go's into a shop ,buys a PC and that's just the OS he's likly to get. Why would he go and install anything else? Despite there being several alternatives that can be just as good as Windows is at doing the same thing. The Mac has a tiny gaming platform because the vast majority of developers aren't going to code for a platform that only has 10% of users in the first place. Now Macs have always been about but its Microsofts bullyishness to have thier OS on every PC about that that is what the masses see and hence that's why Windows has a 90% share. I think if given half the option of what OS a consumer wanted and without any biasism to one in particular, they would be willing to look at the alternatives out there, and gaming might get a broader OS Base. I'm not anti-windows by any strerch of the imagination, I'm a gamer myself, but blindly supporting Windows just because it has 90% market-share and ignoring the fact that consumers didn't really get the coice of what OS they would like to game on in the first place is abit fanboyish to me. Yes I can agree on Apple overcharging you for hardware but another point to bear in mind is that , as I comment from mrbit10 on Yotube to sum it up he says that the best DirectX 10 card is probably not the best performing Open GL Card, and that my friend makes a hell of a difference when your comparing 2 very different programming interfaces, hence if you were to gamr on Apple's hardware you might find that the performance of it's cards were very high indeed , almost as much as a DirectX card under Windows.You misunderstand. I'm not trying to be a fanboy for windows, I'm bashing Apple for selling underpowered computers for exorbitant prices.
Also, the gaming market didn't have much to do with windows' dominance over Apple. That trend is mostly thanks to the rapid adoption of PCs by the business sector (and really Apple never got adopted by the business sector since before windows most companies were using IBM computers). It also doesn't help that while Microsoft merely licenses its OS to third party vendors (HP, Compaq, Dell, etc), Apple insists on having complete control of all prebuilt Macs. That pretty much allowed the Windows OS to get spammed into every retail chain by those third party vendors, whereas the only people selling Apple computers were, well, Apple.
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