Nat Brown leaves Apple.

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Jimmyjames

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I just discovered that Nat Brown @natbro on various social media networks, has left Apple. A real shame as he was the main person pushing various aspects of the move to improve gaming on Apple platforms. He was instrumental in game controller improvements, GPTK, Game Mode etc. While it’s relatively straightforward to find good engineers, his statement about “pushing this particular rock" doesn’t fill me with confidence about gaming on the Mac.

I feel quite sad about this.
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someone left apple.

apple is doomed.
 
Cmaier said:
someone left apple.

apple is doomed.
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They’re not doomed, but the message from his post is that he found it very hard work to advocate for gaming changes. As someone who doesn’t want to have to use more than one platform, it’s frustrating how little progress has been made. He championed more improvements in his time there, than everyone else.

So while Apple isn’t doomed, gaming on Apple devices might be. In terms of AAA games at least.
 
Yeah, this is one problem with large tech companies on the scale of Apple/MS/Amazon. Inertia gets to be a right pain. It’s easy to keep on a direction/vision that’s working or the org agrees is the way forward, but if you need to correct the ship in some way for a specific goal and the org just doesn’t prioritize that goal, it can feel Sisyphean.

I’m looking around for my next project at the moment in part of dealing with this myself. I was brought in to my current team for an effort that got defunded within a couple months, and it’s clear that the priorities of the org, and my expertise don’t align and it’s meant dealing with burnout for the first time in my career.
 
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