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Still makes no sense. Vulkan exists. Where are Apple and MS now? They have no excuse not supporting it.

• klodolph 5y ago
  Why doesn't the excuse, "It costs more money to support multiple graphics APIs" make sense? Or how about, "Let's keep graphics APIs stable?"
  • shmerl 5y ago
    That doesn't make lock-in any better and less of a crooked practice. MS execs actually quite explicitly verbalized the idea of it in the past: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Microsoft#Vendor_lock-in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Microsoft#Vendor_... This applies here very well too.
    • klodolph 5y ago
      Oh, I was really hoping that we were having a discussion about the historical reasons why Metal and DX12 exist. Complaining about how evil Apple and Microsoft are was fun and all in the 1990s when I was a kid hanging out on Slashdot, but I'm just kinda bored of it now.
      • shmerl 5y ago
        Whitewashing lock-in doesn't make your arguments sound any more reasonable. It was bad in the '90s and it is bad today ;)