Based on our record, Mastodon seems to be a lot more popular than Apple Game Center. While we know about 614 links to Mastodon, we've tracked only 3 mentions of Apple Game Center. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
I was gonna link to https://mastodon.social/@_inside/112440596781136013; but you're right, it says that "iPadOS running on M4" has "Secure Exclave"; not that "M4 has Secure Exclave". Though I will admit I definitely misread it that way at first. - Source: Hacker News / 1 day ago
Did you miss the part where Chris Espinosa said "That’s not Sherry Livingston"? Chris also has a follow-up post not shown in Cabel's blog where he says there aren't any photos of Sherry online: https://mastodon.social/@Cdespinosa/112391173495267599. - Source: Hacker News / 21 days ago
Personally, I really like this summary: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/112444973228241564. - Source: Hacker News / 22 days ago
Just a follow up to all downvoters: developers care, and are working on improving performance, take a look at one of hopefully many to come, examples - https://mastodon.social/@tdp_org/112440017216320486. - Source: Hacker News / 26 days ago
Here's a cached copy of the linked post on a server with more capacity: https://mastodon.social/@ben@m.benui.ca/112396505994216742. - Source: Hacker News / 29 days ago
Anything you put elsewhere is not more secure, unless you are more secure than Apple's servers, which seems highly unlikely. If you don't have it, it can't get compromised. The user has an iCloud account, you can write to iCloud storage without making them "sign in" to your app. It's their data, they can find it in the folder for your app in their iCloud drive on a Mac. And see... - Source: Hacker News / 25 days ago
Why do you need them to have an account? What on your roadmap requires it? And perhaps you could leverage Game Center accounts for "play" data, which leverages Apple's sensitivity to provide privacy while allowing achievements, multiplayer, and turn-based games, between partners. https://developer.apple.com/game-center/. - Source: Hacker News / 25 days ago
u/JTostitos is right though that Game Center was designed for this although it has gone out of style with many game studios lately. But it all depends on how the game is designed... If you require constant client-server communications then implementing Game Center doesn't really make sense when you can easily roll your own leaderboard on the server. Source: about 2 years ago
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