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83: Live From WWDC 2014 With Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa, and Scott Simpson

The Talk Show With John Gruber

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Game Developers Are Learning From Open GL's Mistakes

direct X is a very capable API but I think on the metal front a lot of that was coming from game developers who were saying you've got a great GPU but you're making us use open GLES and here's where it's stupid. Apple can't go off and make their own direct X because that's like no that's not what we want We know exactly what we want just give us more control so it's one of the rare cases where Apple enters a new API that's lower level, he says.

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