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radarthekat said:

evilution said:

I’m sure it’ll be all Apple’s fault somehow. News sites will post about iOS apps sending out data, totally missing the fact it happens on Android and is Google’s product at fault.

Totally missing the fact that it’s not anything to do with the apps, per se, but with the underlying developers’ choice to use that server database.  No change to the apps could be made to close that leak, so why it’s presented by the press as an app issue is a bit odd.  

georgie01 said:

kbee said:

Moving away from OpenGL (and not moving to Vulkan) is one of Apples biggest mistakes:
- OpenGL and it's successor Vulkan are industry standards, Metal is a proprietary Apple technology (the way Microsoft would have done it).
- Lots of technologies are built on top of industry standards, all software developers developing cross platform applications rely on industry standards.
- Embedded systems ship with OpenGL (with Vulkan being not available right now on most platforms).
- Famous frameworks like Qt are build on top of OpenGL and offer a little bit of Vulkan.
- Famous tools like Blender are built on top of OpenGL and don't care about Metal.
- Not a single Linux platform supports something like Metal or DirecxtX (to name both proprietary technologies in a single sentence).
- The Web is build on top of standards - ever heard of WebGL? There won't be a WebMetal or WebDirectX.

Game engines:
Yeah! Game engines support Metal! But if we have a closer look, a lot of this game engines use frameworks like MoltenVK to map their Vulkan calls to Metal.
Shame on you Apple! There is a good and open standard and Apple doesn't support it!

Apple custom GPU:
So why is Apple moving in the direction of Metal? Cause Apple is building it's own custom GPU and so Apple doesn't have to implement OpenGL or Vulkan functionalities! Makes sense from Apples point of view but it maybe breaks compatibility with Vulkan/OpenGL in the future.
No one knows if the next Vulkan version will be supported on the next Apple GPU version cause Apple just doesn't care.

What Apple should have done is replacing OpenGL with Vulkan. A lot of developers including myself are turning away from Apple. Slow GPU, bad hardware, bad keyboards, everything soldered and glued, no ports, not replaceable SSD/RAM, no powerhorse Mac Pro - and the best no more OpenGL/Vulkan support in the future.

Goodby Apple

P.S.
This was my first post in 12 years Appleinsider. It was always fun to read the articles but in the past Appleinsider articles read like Apple press releases.
 

Rather than indulge in presumptuous ideas based on passionate feelings, it is a lot more worthwhile to guess that Apple developed Metal because they felt they knew how to get more performance out of their own hardware than an ‘open standard’ could—that sounds pro-consumer to me, to be offered the best performance on the device I paid too much money for. They possibly are also hoping they can leverage iOS’s strength to encourage developers to embrace it on macOS as well. In fact, all of that is a lot more likely than the ideas you presented above.

It doesn’t mean anyone needs to like Metal, but complaining Apple is anti-consumer because of it is rather absurd.

Oh, and btw, I have yet to see an app based on Qt that doesn’t have a sucky UI/UX. It’s a framework for developers who either don’t have the resources to produce a proper UI for different platforms or who lack taste or understanding. That’s not a good example to be using to support your point.

chasm said:

On the other hand, the Smart Connector is technically a wireless connector, so ... maybe we're just interpreting this incorrectly.

Folio said: Not that I do anything nefarious, but I always make a habit of using incognito.