If Apple hadn't pushed USB, I betcha PCs would still have an RS232 and a serial bus. Oh, the outcry when Apple abandoned Floppy Disks. The wrath when Apple introduced a 40MB hard drive which cost ten times as much as a floppy drive (was it in 1984?), because who will ever need that much storage?machinesworking wrote: ↑Sun Oct 20, 2019 6:00 pmApple has done far "worse" in the past, this is total hyperbole from someone who has an agenda. PPC to Intel, OS9 to OSX, these were much bigger things than 32 to 64, and signing.
Don't we all miss those <sarcams>wonderfully engineered</sarcasm> flash-based websites?
Now. Why is there Vulcan when OpenGL did the job just fine? Because, it didn't. So why cling to a concept that has been developed long before current GPU paradigms when there are far superior alternatives which actually save energy and utilise features not otherwise accessible? And let's give people 10 years to figure it out.