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by JiNCMG 1705 days ago
Also investing billions into the platform. Creating libraries and offering them for free use on their platform even Epic uses these libraries, read their comments on iOS Metal APIs.
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Vulkan already exists and works great on Linux (including DXVK and VKD3D-Proton). Apple doesn't get any credit for having a fit of NIH.
Metal was released in 2014. Vulkan was released in 2016.

It makes no sense for them up-root their entire OS and ecosystem just to switch to Vulkan. Microsoft has no interest either.