apple droping opengl an cl support

does that also apply to actual games or just to iphone apps?

So forgive my ignorance but Open GL is an API that interacts with your GPU. Unless Apple is going to do something sneaky to prevent people from installing Nvidia or Radeon cards, I don't see what the big deal is. Apple can push all they want for their proprietary standard but it seems like if anything is going to eventually replace OpenGL it's going to be Vulkan. Apple seems to be quite good at being that pest to keep pushing an industry standard because they didn't get to it first. Yet people continue to buy Apple products. :\

Another API layer. Sounds efficient. /s

Well, I'm not sure if adding support for Metal is a good thing at this stage There are only few Mac players, so instead of adding support for metal (which requires a lot of work), it probably makes more sense to work on Vulkan support (far more players benfit from Vulkan support than from Metal support).

However, even Vulkan support isn't planned at this stage (it's only supported by newer hardware, and probably we won't see huge fps improvements in most cases), especially since it also requires a lot of work (and I'm afraid most people won't be happy if we spend 2 months implementing Vulkan support, which gives a performance boost of 5 fps at the end of the day)