Posted on 01/10/2021 6:01:38 PM PST by mythenjoseph
A correction to your statement: the Unreal Engine *does* work on ARM processors...they have an ARM build.
Also, nobody would use an Air for 3D rendering and game development—it isn’t powerful enough. My top-spec MBP, though? Works great. My point was that the M1-based Air is a fine machine for 95% of users.
I disagree. Many people are happy with just a simple cell phone.
Let’s see. I’m in Unreal 4.25 right now.
Build targets:
Android
Desktop (win+mac+linux)
HoloLens
iOS
Linux (AArch64)
Lumin
Mac
TvOS
Windows (32-bit)
Windows (64-bit)
No native Windows RT support or Apple M1 support
Right, but you said ARM, and obviously Unreal has mobile support, so it targets ARM. There is no useful Linux target, nor is there M1 support (at the moment).
Sorry, scratch my Linux comment—Unreal has Linux support, it’s Unity that doesn’t have a Linux publication pipeline.
Many people are happy with just a simple cell phone.
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Really? Not according to market share.
Outside of India and the MEA (Middle East - Africa) region, basically no one wants to use a feature phone and definitely not a simple cell phone. No, the Nokia 3310 is not making a comeback.
For example, feature phone shipments in North America declined by 75% from 2019 to 2020, according to Counterpoint Research.
With unreal, a few devs managed to hack together something based on kludging together Android and Linux support. Most, if not all, unsuccessful, according to the unreal forums. About as useful as people that get Windows 95 running on non-traditional devices.
Let’s see: Windows or Mac. Download UE4 and run. Linux: compile and build from Unreal source and a page of other steps. Not worth it. All of your 3rd party dll-based plugins will not work (have to find and compile from source)
There is an unstable pile of garbage unity keeps pushing for a native Linux build IDE. It’s as hot garbage as the Unreal one. Now they say 2022.
Uhm...what exactly are they doing themselves on this phone and what are they depending on others to do? Did they make their own operating system from scratch? Did they make all their own hardware? If its a new operating system what apps work on it?
Yes. I’m on year 4 with the same 5s iPhone.
“Outside of India and the MEA (Middle East - Africa) region”
Since that is about 1.8 billion people, about 3 times the population of North America, I would say that that would be “many people”.
You missed the point. Basically, pretty much except the very tech inept would want a feature phone in the West, even less would want a basic phone that just makes calls and simple sms. Most in this class do not even have internet capability or a camera. Welcome back to 1998.
Good burner phones, I guess.
I’m down for that #LetsRoll
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