[q92z8oeif]

I wonder if a forum outside of the silicon valley bubble would have so so many apple apologists like we have in this thread.

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apple is bullish on metal vs vulkan because they want to lock in apps. and they have the upper hand because by not implementing vulkan, they force everyone to chose between the money on IOS or everything else. it's not a technical decision.

middle ware provide only the minimum common denominator, or expensive translation functions, it is not even close to providing the flexibility and speed modern emulators need.

absolutely nobody plays on apple hardware. specially not the people that are into gaming enough to write an emulator. no matter how much you personally want to believe the opposite.

[pjmlp]

Yes, in game developers forums and magazine articles like Gamedev, IGDA, Gamasutra, EDGE, MCV Develop, MakingGames, GDC talks, Gamasutra, the long gone Flipcode, demoscene discussion forums, the media meetings at many Game Design schools.

Usually I only find this anti-Apple argumentation in pro FOSS forums.

[mehmetoguzderin]

Metal is pretty nice, to be honest, with MSL being a real treat. And it is not too extra for a company with its custom GPU architecture to have its API too.