Wed. 06/07 – Maybe Apple DOES Want To Get Serious About Mac Gaming

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🗓️ 7 June 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Maybe I was wrong. Maybe Apple does want to get serious about gaming on the Mac after all. Maybe I was right. Sequoia splitting in three IS about China after all. Samsung is holding an event at home for the first time in forever. And Matt Levine answers my questions about what now for Coinbase? Back to just trading bitcoin and ether? Sponsors: NewtonX.com/techmeme Links: macOS Sonoma lets developers port Windows games to the Mac; here’s how it works (9to5Mac) Apple makes iOS 17 developer beta free for registered developers (9to5Mac) Sequoia’s Split Sends Warning to US Companies Doing Business in China (Bloomberg) Samsung officially confirms first Unpacked event in Korea for new foldables (9to5Google) The SEC Comes for Crypto (Matt Levine/Bloomberg) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem right home for Wednesday, June 7th, 2023. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:09.0	Maybe I was wrong. Maybe Apple does want to get serious about gaming on the Mac after all.
0:14.0	Maybe I was right. Sequoia Splitting In 3 is about China after all.
0:19.0	Samsung is holding an event at home for the first time in forever,
0:22.0	and Matt Levine answers my questions about
0:23.6	what now for coin base back to just trading Bitcoin and ether here's what you
0:27.9	miss today in the world of tech.
0:31.1	A couple of big Apple changes have been revealed as W.W.C. continues this week.
0:37.0	Remember my snark during the keynote about Apple never really taking gaming on the Mac seriously.
0:44.0	Well, Apple has released a game porting toolkit based on open source platform wine to translate
0:51.0	DirectX12 into Metal 3,
0:54.0	a potentially massive step for Mac gaming.
0:57.0	Quoting friend of the show, Christina Warren, on Twitter.
0:59.5	Apple added DX12 support to Mac OS
1:02.0	and Apple Silicon via its Gaming Portal toolkit.
1:05.2	It's basically a 20-K patch to whine that will make it easy to play
1:09.9	AAA Windows games on Mac OS without using a virtual machine.
1:14.4	This is essentially Proton, Valve's wine thing for Linux and Steam OS and
1:19.3	DX12, but for Mac OS.
1:21.5	This is massive."
1:22.8	End quote from 9 to 5 Mac.
1:25.0	One of the new features in Mac OS Sonoma is Game Mode, which Apple claims improves gaming performance
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