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(disclaimer, I work at AWS) > Do you believe Apple are somehow resource strained? Oh if only you knew... Yes we are very engineering constrained at those comp
by my123 5y ago
(disclaimer, I work at AWS)
> Do you believe Apple are somehow resource strained?
Oh if only you knew... Yes we are very engineering constrained at those companies. Money doesn't replace the fact that there isn't enough people around who have the skills and are willing to work there at any price.
And on top of that there's the opportunity costs of having them work on this instead of something else...
When MoltenVK exists as a compatible Vulkan impl on top of Metal already, it's very hard to justify this.
- tibbetts 5y agoOpportunity cost is totally the analysis. Not just the developers, but the tech writing and support and product marketing and management oversight and continuity planning and support commitment. Building production software in a large organization is 10-50 times more expensive than a random open source hobby project. If you have a team to do that, is yet another graphics API really the best use of their time?
- tigen 5y ago> there isn't enough people around who have the skills and are willing to work there at any price I don't believe it. They could easily expand their hiring if they were sufficiently motivated. There is a combination of mismatched incentives at the team level and inefficient interviewing processes and requirements. It's often in the interest of employees to be inefficient in this regard.