Operating systems

I was talking to my uncle at the weekend who's also a tech euthiast and he stumbled on a topic that I thought it was well observed. He said that when he's using the mac he has no insentive to go round and customizing it the way he likes' this is because most of the applications and the user interface features is all catered for the end user experience. Everything works the way it's advertised and everything optimized for the hardware.

PC... I'll talk about mac in a minute. Developing PC Games in the gaming industry have always been a hard one to capture on, every game developer aren't going to run their game on every CPU and GPU because it would cost too much to purchase all the machines and it would take too much of the developering time.

When developing games for the Mac is relatively easy to do because first you've got the amount of mac that run the software of Mac Os x in this case it's snow leopard because you'll access to the app store so you've ruled out macs older than 3 years old (i'm not quite sure how old apple stopped supporting mac). Every year for the macs they bring out the latest mac book pro and air, and they bring out 3 macs for each versions being i3, i5 or i7 so you've got easy programming so that it's optimized for those pieces of software.

There's one game for the Iphone that have really been catered to each and every iDevice out there and that's Landsplitter... If you're playing on a low end device like the Iphone 3G, and almost immeditaly after you'vw launched the game it goes into the optimizing mode and that elimanates advanced geometry and textures for a more fluent experience. Since the developers have taken the time to think of the lower end devices, they've become respected and started off a new phase of having apps on the iDevices.

See what windows does with their operating system, they give a standard of what hardware windows runs on. Each hardware manufactuer can't test every little but very different pieces of hardware. With windows and I believe this too, when you're using windows you've always got a tempation to pump it up and make it better and best suited to your personal needs.