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bigyabailast Wednesday at 6:09 AM1 replyview on HN

I think people are (rightfully) upset at the business-oriented decisions that limit MacOS as a platform, prevent competition on iOS and demand annual tithes from their developers like they're peons tilling land for coin. These are fair criticisms, prosecuted in a few courts even, and well within the realm of reasonable change.

Apple makes great things for their users when they collaborate with the industry. That's why we're concerned when they abandon standards and demand convergence on suspicious centralized cloud crap.


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troupolast Wednesday at 7:24 AM

> That's why we're concerned when they abandon standards

Is DirectX a standard? Is Playstation NDK (or whatever it's called) a standard?

Vulkan is not a "standard". It's a designed-by-committee API that arrived on the scene years after "non-standard" APIs.

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