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Re:Apple M5 chip by kllrnohj on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @11:14AM (#45593856)
PlayStation, Nintendo, and Xbox all have 10s of millions of gamers each. Meanwhile MacOS makes up ~2% of steam users which is probably a pretty good proxy for the number of MacOS gamers.

Why would I do anything bespoke at all for such a tiny market? Much less an entirely unique GPU API?

Apple refusing to support OpenGL and Vulkan absolutely hurt their gaming market. It increased the porting costs for a market that was already tiny.

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Re:Apple M5 chip by littlecranky67 on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @01:23PM (#45595779)
> Why would I do anything bespoke at all for such a tiny market?

Because there is a huge potential here to increase market share.

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