I Neve said "doesn't cost anything". I said the porting cost is a small fraction of the original PC cost, plus the port will assist the PC side by revealing undiscovered bugs.

Picking the recommended involves a base system and all upstream GPUs. Say 3060 is your base, add 30x0 where x is 6 or higher, 40x0 where x is 5 or higher and any 50x0. Now if 1650 is your base also add in 10x0 where x is 6 or greater, and 16x0 and 20x0 where x is 5 or greater. Do likely wise for AMD and Intel. Note on the Intel side you will find many more integrated GPUs that can reach the 1650 level than the 3060 level. The potential market for the 1650 level GPUs will be far larger than the potential market of the 3060 level. This is the sort of calculation game studio execs use. Answering the question of how far down do the minimum and recommended systems have to go to have a sufficiently sized market. 3060 would be too small today. Well, for a developer whose revenue is retail game based. IF the developer happens to license their game engine for big bucks, then they may be willing to go for better GPUs, and sacrifice retail sales, in order to attract licensing fees from other developers. Other developers will not be concerned about such a game engine requiring better GPUs today, it'll be years before their game is ready and such GPUs will then be far more common and represent a more interesting sized market.

Uh, no. Integrated GPUs far outnumber the 3060. Besides not understanding how game studios pick required and recommended GPUs, you are failing to recognize the bias of the Steam Survey. It's more weighted towards 3D shooters. If you look at data for strategy, RPG, etc you will see very different numbers. That data is, as far as I know, is proprietary.

PCI requirements would be different since they involve systems that read and process authentication creds which are for someone else (Your systems are not the relying party the creds are to be presented to. And you don't own creds - they belong to an end user and a bank, And your use of these numbers will be regulated by agreements with your own merchant providers.), thus the storage is only necessary for a short period. That is a fundamental security tenet systems in the middle of an authentication exchange have to make sure authentication materials are destroyed as soon as possible. That's so well established that retaining unneeded auth data amounts to gross negligence.

The logs that are part of the product ought to have been encrypted with a zero knowledge solution; for example: The customer's login password (while the provider knows only its hash), or a chosen key known to the customer or stored on the client but not the server is necessary to decrypt the chat history.

No. You may be thinking of the Spanish claims about the Aztecs

Archeologists have never found any evidence of the claimed slaughter, in spite of a century of searching.

They were destroyed by 90% of their population dying of diseases bred in the incredible filth of Medieval Europe.

At least the Inca sacrifices (which totaled only in the dozens)

The Inca managed projects which sculpted entire valleys into works of art, built using the largest stones ever utilized in construction to this day in walls where knife blades cannot be inserted between them

irrigated the driest desert in the world

and managed teams of up to 120,000 workers in projects which could last decades.

If their population hadn't been in the process of catastrophic collapse they would have quickly figured out a way to defeat Pizarro no matter his brutality, and probably made a drinking cup of his skull.

The Inca carved entire valleys into works of art, had no hunger, no beggars, no unemployed, no starving widows and orphans.

My point is that the average is below a 3060. Probably closer to that 1650. Keep in mind all the folks with laptops with embedded video. Good lord many of them have Intel GPUs. A 3060 might be a recommended target the the minimum will probably be that 1650. For something shipping today. For something that is starting development today, and won't be available for years, then that 3060 may be the minimum.

Sorry, been there, done that. The real world cost of ports shows otherwise.

Sorry, been there, done that. In gaming, in engineering projects, in scientific projects. Heard plenty of "how the f*ck is the current code running" soft of comments in all these areas when I get back to the original devs regarding bugs I'm finding in the current code. Port a project to a new platform, especially where there is different hardware. Odds are likely you will find various bugs in the code. And when you tell the origin devs about it you will often hear words such as "how the f*ck did this ever" work. Sometimes bugs manifest in a very difficult to observe or recreate manner. On a different platform it may be wildly obvious. I've had Windows dev who learned this and when struggling to recreate a bug came over and asked to try things on a Mac. Bad pointer trashed something unimportant on Windows, something important on Mac. And this is not specific to games. I've seen the same thing at engineering focused companies and at science focused companies.

Rarely. They are most likely exposing an existing and unknown bug. I've built non-UI on Linux even when the product was Windows only. Even the different compiler warning helped find bugs in the Windows source. Add a little script based regressing testing when building the non-ui code into a Linux console app and even more bugs are likely to be found.

And yet Mac developers do so successfully all the time. Yes, there is sometimes work to replicate in platform specific code. But these usually occur when the original code is being reworked, refactored, updated, etc. And now we are back to the Mac porting will probably find currently unknown bugs in the Windows code. Also, we've gotten to the point where some of this work can be automated or handled by a library. MoltenVK is a software library which allows Vulkan applications to run on top of Metal on Apple's macOS, iOS, and tvOS operating systems. It is the first software component to be released for the Vulkan Portability Initiative, a project to have a subset of Vulkan run on platforms lacking native Vulkan drivers." https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F... [wikipedia.org]

Except for the fact that these people constitute a sizable chunk of the Mac gaming market.

Great. Me too. However may people only have one, and they need a Mac for one reason or another. They would still like to play games.

The problem that people don't realize is that democracy was never about voting every four or so years, like Russia, but about citizen participation with a legal system that treats every citizen the same. Just the fact that the president can pardon and is not held to the same laws as citizens confirms that the US not a democracy.

Democracy is absolutely about voting every 4 years- and unlike Russia- having that vote actually counted, and given not under duress.

but about citizen participation with a legal system that treats every citizen the same. Just the fact that the president can pardon and is not held to the same laws as citizens confirms that the US not a democracy.