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Developers aren't interested when Apple keeps dropping APIs.

Develop your game for x86_32, suddenly Apple drops support and you have to rewrite your entire game again for x86_64.

Develop your game for OpenCL/GL, suddenly Apple drops support and you have to rewrite your entire game again for Metal.

Develop your game for x86_64, suddenly apple drops support and you have to rewrite your entire game again for ARM64.

That's without counting the fact that most games developed nowadays developed using Vulcan or DX12 which has to be rewritten to Metal.

People are installing Windows on their Macs to play games that used to run natively on MacOS. Imagine how bad the backlash if this happened on Windows.



Dropping 32-but was telegraphed for a decade, OpenGL still works fine on the newest Macs, and Rosetta has zero issue running x64 games.




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