Apple's new project, codenamed Marzipan, sounds similar to the efforts Microsoft has made over the years. It's worth revisiting what Microsoft was attempting to accomplish and why it failed. Windows 8 was designed to offer a touch-friendly UI that could scale to a 32-inch monitor or run comfortably on a phone screen. It didn't offer a unified developer framework the way Apple is considering (that came later, with Windows 10 Mobile), but Metro apps were supposed to scale easily across different screen sizes. It was a great idea on paper, but it largely failed in practice. Apps designed for smal
Apple Wants to Combine Mac and iOS Apps. Can it Succeed Where Microsoft Failed?…All games will be available in unified binaries; the CPU binary is common to both platforms while the GPU binaries will come in up to three flavors: Neo-specific, PS4-specific, and…
…First, it's not hard to see why Nintendo would prefer to have one console as a unified place for all its properties. Bring a Pokémon game out for Switch, and you…