> Why would Apple support something that appeared two years later than Metal?
Because Vulkan is Open Standard? It's similar to how EV car manufacturers other than Tesla are now embracing NACS even though it was born at Tesla. It's also similar to how Apple adopted USB C given Lightning was already a standard before USB C.
You can't blame community or Khoronos either. Khoronos and developers did their best with best effort Vulkan-> Metal translator with Moltenvk and you can now not worry that your Vulkan apps won't run on MacOS(exceptions are heavy games and there are still many Vulkan extensions not implemented thanks to Metal).
And note that it's not you or I who is losing because Apple didn't support Vulkan. It's Apple themselves whose Mac devices have started losing share in Gaming Market. Day by day, Developers are ignoring MacOS as target. If this isn't a warning call to Apple, i don't know what is.
Because Vulkan is Open Standard? It's similar to how EV car manufacturers other than Tesla are now embracing NACS even though it was born at Tesla. It's also similar to how Apple adopted USB C given Lightning was already a standard before USB C.
You can't blame community or Khoronos either. Khoronos and developers did their best with best effort Vulkan-> Metal translator with Moltenvk and you can now not worry that your Vulkan apps won't run on MacOS(exceptions are heavy games and there are still many Vulkan extensions not implemented thanks to Metal).
And note that it's not you or I who is losing because Apple didn't support Vulkan. It's Apple themselves whose Mac devices have started losing share in Gaming Market. Day by day, Developers are ignoring MacOS as target. If this isn't a warning call to Apple, i don't know what is.