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Jerry Pournelle was black listed for life from Apple events because he called the original Mac 'a toy' because it didn't have enough RAM to do serious work. Th
by NovaDudely 3y ago
Jerry Pournelle was black listed for life from Apple events because he called the original Mac 'a toy' because it didn't have enough RAM to do serious work.
There was that very brief period in the late 90's where Job's vaguely gave it a little try with things like a Demo of Quake 3 on stage but they then moved on from that almost immediately.
The closest thing Apple has done for gaming technology wise is the Metal API, if they really wanted to make an impact on gaming, they would have adopted Vulkan.
- giantrobot 3y ago> The closest thing Apple has done for gaming technology wise is the Metal API, if they really wanted to make an impact on gaming, they would have adopted Vulkan. Work on Metal started before AMD donated Mantle to Khronos which became Vulkan and was released (IIRC) before Vulkan was finalized. Apple was not going to drop all that investment to chase Vulkan.
- MBCook 3y agoGiantrobot’s comment is spot on. I’m addition, I think Apple just wanted a faster and more modern API to make better use of their hardware than the old version of OpenGL they were using. I suspect they still would have made Metal even if the games industry didn’t exist. That just happens to be the context we hear it discusses in the most, for obvious reasons.
- giantrobot 3y agoI think Metal would have 100% happened even if somehow the game industry didn't exist. It was all about getting better performance, especially better performance per watt by making more optimal use of the hardware. I don't think the OpenGL model of GPUs was ever going to get there. Since Vulkan just didn't exist when Apple was looking at the landscape they decided to make their own system.