There is a small subset of people that get really upset when anything Apple comes up. I really don’t get it.
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Operating Systems are a religion. People love their own and want to convert you.
For me personally, Apple is the most egregious example of corporate anti-competitive business practices and they can’t lose this DOJ anti trust battle fast enough.
Look to thine own self.
As if it’s bad to be one. As if knowing about new tach and educating oneself is bad.
Glass houses, m’dear.
Well, you can if you’re willing to mess with GPTK/WINE.
WoW is fine on an iMac. I’ve done it since 2007.
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While spending more to achieve what a PC can do for less
Which she’s not.
Not when she just bought D3 and we played together. When I bought D4 and she saw there was no support for Mac … she fired off the angriest of nerdrage emails to Blizzard that, if such a thing would have made a difference, it would have made a difference. lol
how would you play wow on ipad?
Sure you can touch your keybinds.
But how are you going to move and use your spells at the same time?
iPads have been able to pair with mice and keyboards for years now. They have a lot of games that support that, as well as controllers.
Honestly, the only thing keeping the newer gen iPads from being full on desktop/laptop replacements is the software and the inability to run full programs, and they seem to be slowly changing that, starting with creative/video/editing/art apps.
I’ve got an iPad pro for art/work and I can connect it to a larger monitor, a mouse and a keyboard and it can do 98% of what my desktop can do (for me).
Though I love my PC and would certainly keep playing WoW on it, I do admit I am tickled at the idea of being able to do dailies or crafting or chat with guildies on my ipad at work.
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Apple’s still trash.
Interesting, i have a ipad pro but i never tried connecting a mouse too it.
There is no mouse pointer so i guess once you connect a mouse it pops up.
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Mouse pointer is a new feature actually. It’s a round dot instead of a usual cursor. They also recently (or will soon be) adding extended display support so instead of just mirroring the ipad, you can extend the display and have a legit 2nd monitor. So you could set up the iPad with a larger monitor, mouse and keyboard and play games pretty much like on a PC.
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Touch controls would likely be supported, but iPads also have full support for keyboards and mice, and Xbox or PS game controllers.
Think of an iPad Pro sort of like a touch screen laptop, for this purpose.
I personally wouldn’t play wow on an iPad, but I’m sure there are people who would do it, using the iPad as a secondary device for when they are traveling or whatever.
I think this is likely going to be the case. I don’t think this will get more people to buy iPads, but I think the people that already have them like myself will totally dabble. I will certainly be playing on mine, questing/leveling/dailies on my lunch break or whatnot.
Though I could be wrong, who knows. Maybe our future holds entire guilds of iPad Mythic Raiders. Wouldn’t that be something to see lol. I may go reserve the guild name “Apple Fanboys” right now. Get a jump start on it.
You can play it on the steam deck, and my guess it was using steam/proton to do it
Sure, different work flows but when one is paying a premium price for a computer and it has a hard time to play games and and where apple just does downright Shady things when one needs to repair/upgrade said computer
Imo people that use apple are in a cult but each there own
I would dabble for sure. Two years ago I got my first iPad, an M1 iPad Pro, and I got a few AAA games on it to mess around with.
CIV 6 and Divinity Original Sin 2 are good tablet games as they are turn based, and they run well on the M1. I don’t have a wireless gamepad yet, but I would likely mess around with more titles if I had one.
I agree mostly. Like Apple is 100% overpriced.
But their products are really good, like the new ipads and apple silicon chips blow all other tablets and many laptops out of the water. Its just that for some reason Apple wants to bottleneck their own stuff by not allowing it to run full fledge programs or do all the things a PC can do. So you’ve got this weird thing where the newest iPads could run circles around many laptops if given the chance, power wise, but the software literally stops that power from being used to it’s full potential. And it’s a lot because Apple has made themselves their own competition, where they don’t want the iPad to complete with the Macs.
I wouldn’t say I am in a cult, because I totally see what they do. They don’t let their stuff be repaired, they bottle neck their own stuff, they’ve been accused of purposefully slowing down old phones (I dunno if they still do, my phone works just like the day I got it and it’s several generations old now). But I got an iPad because imo the iPad + pencil is unparalleled when it comes to digital art, and I got the phone because it pairs easily, and the watch for the same reason. They’ve made this ecosystem where everything just works seamlessly together, but then you struggle to work with anything outside the box.
I get the downsides, and I think a lot of Apple users do. But for many it just suits their needs/workflow etc. Though I know there are the rabid fans who wont hear a bad word about Apple, I don’t think that’s as many as it used to be. Especially after the stuff like slowing down old phones, bendgate, and other such things that have happened to tarnish their reputation to some.
If I thought an android table could work for me as well as my ipad one for my artwork and such, I’d switch.
If it works for you cool , that’s why there’s choices out there I personally use Linux. but when apple solder ram and ssds on there laptops and computers…and one needs special tools to get things removed from said laptops or computers. I wouldn’t own one if they were the best thing known to man…