• ferret@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Sure, metal offered significant improvements over opengl when it released, but now that vulkan exists apple doesn’t have any more excuses.

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      1 year ago

      I don’t disagree - I don’t own Apple products, and I very much would prefer if all games also dropped DirectX.

      But my point is that Metal didn’t fail, and it’s not “used in a minority of devices” and Apple isn’t “crazy for thinking they would succeed with a new graphics API for games” because by all relevant metrics, dominance over mobile gaming is much more important.