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Gaming on macOS is a joke. They really burned a lot of bridges with developers and customers when they dropped 32-bit support, and refusing to support the next
by coldpie 7y ago
Gaming on macOS is a joke. They really burned a lot of bridges with developers and customers when they dropped 32-bit support, and refusing to support the next generation graphics API in favor of their own, dumb thing isn't doing them any favors, either. You built this bed, Apple, enjoy laying in it.
- alfalfasprout 7y agoDropping 32 bit support frankly was a good idea and a step in the right direction in not carrying legacy cruft for generations... but Metal just doesn't make much sense. OSX is already a super niche market for gaming anyways and having a completely separate API just didn't garner any favors especially once Vulkan came around.
- teruakohatu 7y ago> Dropping 32 bit support frankly was a good idea No it wasn't. Apple has the resources to support 32bit apps. Wine is looking at adding support in userspace for mac osx. If it can be supported in userspace they could have added a translation layer themselves if they really couldn't stomach keeping it in the kernel.
- tandr 7y agoThey could've just "emulated" it through some VM-like technology. Mac is all no fun and games now, only serious, $5k+ enterprise business...