See I just don't believe apple supporting Vulcan* would change anything - Metal has a vast install base of consumers that most studies show are happier paying f

See I just don't believe apple supporting Vulcan* would change anything - Metal has a vast install base of consumers that most studies show are happier paying for things than the android and linux consumer bases. The reality is that game developers target consoles with their proprietary APIs, on windows they use DirectX or GPU vendor specific paths. A small subset also might support whatever the current open-graphics API is, but they're a clear minority, and it's a secondary platform. Apple adding support for Vulcan just wouldn't change that - linux+Mac users combined don't come close to the windows game market, let alone the consoles, when you add in to that supporting directx giving you windows and xbox, there's no competition. Obviously Apple could start paying devs to support Mac+ios, but again they'd have to do that whether their main api was metal or Vulcan, so given all their shipping hardware is designed for Metal (whatever that means), what would be the benefit in switching to a new graphic library? (other than making new games not work on otherwise functional older hardware and being accused of artificial obsolescence) *it was at this point I gave up fighting autocorrect