Apple$$$$$$$$$ - Socoder

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Wed, 31 Oct 2018, 05:00
Jayenkai	Continuing their recent trend of outpricing everyone's bank account, the new MacMini starts at about $200 more than I paid for my ’’mid-range’’ one that I bought a couple of years ago. -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Wed, 31 Oct 2018, 05:00
Pakz	I had the thought that the pro ipads would be very expensive! (+/- 2000$) So I bought the cheap one recently.
Wed, 31 Oct 2018, 09:07
zzoom	Apple has a good business model, thankfully I was exposed to how good their business model was back at the iPod stage, all that dosh I've saved. My last hardware purchase was a 2nd hand laptop for 560p, that's pence, not pounds! -=-=- Happy coding!
Wed, 31 Oct 2018, 09:24
Jayenkai	Nah, they're going TOO far with the pricing, IMO. I used to make iPhone games, and could say to folk "Just grab a cheap iPod Touch as a starter device", and for the most part that's still a semi-viable option, but the iPod Touch is getting really old at this point, tech-wise. They've ruined their own marketplace. Everything is overpriced, and the sorts of people who will happily pay £1000 for a fucking phone are unwilling to pay £1 for a game. It's completely and utterly fucked up. * But I still use an iPad every day! -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Wed, 31 Oct 2018, 13:00
jm2bits	Interestingly we did a release at work a couple of weeks ago and a lot of the iOS users had iPhone XS or XS Max devices... those devices were only released in September and cost over 1000 for a base model. The way I see it, these people have the disposable income to spend 5 quid on a premium title for their new device. I think Apple's marketplace is thriving. People don't see a 1000 device, they see a 50 pound a month contract.
Wed, 31 Oct 2018, 16:01
spinal	I'm turning my old 2011 mac mini into a retro gaming machine. Installed win10 on it, just needs a nice emulator frontend... if only I could find the source for that one I made a few years ago. It probably can't handle anything better than ps1/n64 emu, but that's fine by me -=-=- Check out my excellent homepage!
Mon, 18 Mar 2019, 12:31
Pakz	Ipad air and ipad mini now available. Things are expensive again. I was hoping to give a mini to my mother if it was cheap. The chip in the air is the a12 bionic but the 64 gb is priced at around 600 over here. With a stand cover at 80 euro the thing would cost around 700. I checked the space left on my older ipads and I use around 20gb with every app installed. The non64gb model is now 256gb. The old ipad 2017 still is pretty snappy, so no need to upgrade that one tbh.
Mon, 18 Mar 2019, 13:37
Jayenkai	Yeah, I was going to order one.. upgrade mine and give mum the current model. .. Until two things happened. 1. I checked my bank balance, remembering my financial situation is more yet "normal" 2. I realised I wouldn't use any more cpu than I already do. Pushing KORG to the max is as hard as I push the iPad, and.. I can do that.. without issues. Nah, I'm fine as is. -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Mon, 18 Mar 2019, 18:28
cyangames	(looks at lenovo T420 laptop, glances at similarly aged desktop PC) I'm okay for buying new hardware. Might get a replacement phone though come May, despite my best efforts the battery life on this ol xperia xa just aint cutting it for pogo. Then again, I do have to pay off the credit card still... yeah, my phone is fine for the moment. -=-=- Web / Game Dev, occasionally finishes off coding games also!