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[–] muddybulldog@mylemmy.win 4 points 3 years ago (5 children)

Instead of embracing open standards they made Metal.

Did DirectX become an open standard when I wasn’t paying attention?

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[–] i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 years ago (4 children)

It's Metal instead of Vulkan. But I've seen somebody else make this argument before and somebody corrected them by pointing out that Metal dates back to early iPhones and predates Vulkan.

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[–] neveraskedforthis@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago

Metal predates Vulkan.

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[–] andruid@lemmy.ml 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)