I’ve been exploring Metal a lot in the past year, and I really enjoy working with it. This article has a lot of interesting historical bits, but conflates a lo

I’ve been exploring Metal a lot in the past year, and I really enjoy working with it. This article has a lot of interesting historical bits, but conflates a lot. Maybe Jobs hoped to take on the high-end graphics market, but my understanding is that the NeXT cube was fairly underpowered. It was its application development environment which made it a cult classic. (And arguably what led the the success of MacOS and iOS.) The Mac Pro is definitely reminiscent of a time where SGI had some of the sexiest machines available. There’s always been the “Apple Tax”, but there’s also always been people willing to pay it because they love the Apple ecosystem, the aesthetics of the platform.