Apple in the 21st century are exactly like Microsoft in the 20th: they view open source and public protocols as an active threat to their business model and will go miles out of their way to ignore any FOSS project even if it could be hugely beneficial to them.
I mean honestly, the bigger shift would have been just implementing vulkan instead of trippling down on their own graphics interface…
But Apple wouldn’t want to lose its huge advantage on intesive graphical apps eye roll
Like I get asking Microsoft to give up DirectX is asking for them to lose market grip, but what grip is metal actually giving Apple?
Curious to see whether this actually helps Mac Gaming or not. I’m pretty happy with the way Wine helps gaming on Linux, I use Pop OS all the time now as a result of being able to play all the games I want on it.
They are so off the mark its crazy, the future of this is streaming games services. Yea it’ll be running on windows or linux at the other end and that isn’t what Apple wants but its the future.
Lemme just go login to my stadia account.
It uses codeweaver’s source code. Codeweaver’s blog post about it
How much does Codeweaver contribute back to the FOSS projects?
They are the primary corporate sponsor for Wine and employ many of the developers. so… a lot.
