<story><title>Mac Pro Puts the Pedal to Metal in Apple&apos;s Race with Nvidia</title><url>https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/10/18/editorial-mac-pro-puts-the-pedal-to-metal-in-apples-race-with-nvidia</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kevin_b_er</author><text>Metal is racing against Vulkin as well, because Apple needed to have their own standard they owned.  Except Metal has zero support outside of Apple products.&lt;p&gt;Besides, what Metal represents is Apple&amp;#x27;s attempt to have yet another vector for their infamous walled garden and vendor lock-in strategies.&lt;p&gt;Further, the article and the website are intentionally and blatently biased.
Quotes like this showcase their extreme bias:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; One can be righteously indignant that Apple isn&amp;#x27;t subsidizing everyone else with support for their platforms, whether CUDA, Vulkan, or even Android. But such emotions won&amp;#x27;t have any bearing on the final outcome of who wins and who loses in the market for developing and commercializing the graphics technology of the future.&lt;p&gt;The absolute derisiveness of open standards coupled with their insults against those that would showcases quite well the position of the article, its authors, and the website itself.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ogre_codes</author><text>Yes, AppleInsider is totally biased.&lt;p&gt;But the competition here is not &amp;quot;Open Standards&amp;quot;, it&amp;#x27;s CUDA, which is Nvidia&amp;#x27;s own proprietary standard. There is no Open Standard which has any kind of market share.&lt;p&gt;The claim that Apple is against Open Standards is a bit misleading in this case. Apple invested a lot of money and spent years pushing Open Standards in this market in the form of OpenCL... the open standard which Nvidia refused to support and in general the industry ignored.&lt;p&gt;Apple is no angel and in many other places they&amp;#x27;ve ignore standards, but in this case, there have been standards around for years and both the competition and the market have largely ignored them. Singling out Apple here is just wrong.</text></comment>
<story><title>Mac Pro Puts the Pedal to Metal in Apple&apos;s Race with Nvidia</title><url>https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/10/18/editorial-mac-pro-puts-the-pedal-to-metal-in-apples-race-with-nvidia</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kevin_b_er</author><text>Metal is racing against Vulkin as well, because Apple needed to have their own standard they owned.  Except Metal has zero support outside of Apple products.&lt;p&gt;Besides, what Metal represents is Apple&amp;#x27;s attempt to have yet another vector for their infamous walled garden and vendor lock-in strategies.&lt;p&gt;Further, the article and the website are intentionally and blatently biased.
Quotes like this showcase their extreme bias:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; One can be righteously indignant that Apple isn&amp;#x27;t subsidizing everyone else with support for their platforms, whether CUDA, Vulkan, or even Android. But such emotions won&amp;#x27;t have any bearing on the final outcome of who wins and who loses in the market for developing and commercializing the graphics technology of the future.&lt;p&gt;The absolute derisiveness of open standards coupled with their insults against those that would showcases quite well the position of the article, its authors, and the website itself.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reaperducer</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Further, the article and the website are intentionally and blatently biased&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Seems like an unnecessary criticism.  It&amp;#x27;s an Apple fan blog, not journalism. Nobody is going to Apple Insider for  balanced information about tech trends.</text></comment>