On Thursday, 16 July 2015 at 14:07:29 UTC, rsw0x wrote:
for Microsoft - never.) 6-7 android phones are selling per iOS
phone, and this is projected to keep going up thanks to
developing countries entering the market and Apple's popularity
falling amongst western demographics.
No, Vulkan will _not_ be DOA.
Exactly. Apple usually avoid making announcements until they are
certain that products will be ready for consumption. So being
silent about Vulkan is business as usual. Apple don't do public
roadmaps like Intel/AMD...
Having Metal on OSX is just another step in harmonizing iOS and
OSX apis. Probably happens now due the desktop GPU situation. We
need to keep in mind that iOS units have different GPUs.