Khronos Group ships tools bringing Vulkan graphics API to iOS and MacOS

Nice!

So the Khronos Group is a non profit consortium?  Sounds like it...

I’ve long heard MacOS has been lacking in Gaming Performance.  They’re also behind Linux?

Khronos Group keep up the good work!  It’s past time Apple achieves parity...

seanismorris said:

So the Khronos Group is a non profit consortium?  Sounds like it...

I’ve long heard MacOS has been lacking in Gaming Performance.  They’re also behind Linux?

Khronos Group keep up the good work!  It’s past time Apple achieves parity...

No, the Khronos group is a central Patent management firm that takes multiple Patents and combines them to ultimately create a "Standard" and then charge either the end-user, programmers, or others in the process of using their Patents.  Remember h.264, well the Khronos group allowed everyone to use it for "Free" for a few years so it would become a standard and then started charging everyone to use it.  Ie. BluRay manufacturer.  While it has its benefits, it also has it's disadvantages and this is why Apple has settled on its own technology internally... because would you, as Apple, want to pay a third party group a commission for every Apple computer, iphone and ipad sold, even if only a percentage of user uses technology X? Ie. Khronos becomes the new DirectX standard and Apple is forced by its users to incorporate Vulkan.  Then Khronos, whom manages the Patents turns to Apple and say, "Let's discuss how much you are going to pay our patent owners/inventors" then Apple is forced to negotiations because of these Patents and for every computer, iphone and ipad sold Apple has to pay Khronos $$, which Apple of course will pass that cost to the end users, even if you not a user of Vulkan.

However, on the flip side, Khronos by gathering and working with multiple Patent holders/inventors can put together better technology for the end user.  Help the Inventor recover money for any corporation using his/her Patent and can help create a Standard to user across multiple devices.  So there are advantages to it.

Khronos, gets paid by a commission of Royalties collected for managing all of the Patents.  Which includes lawyers, top 1% professional sales folks, insurances, etc. etc. Which is clearly earned.  Khronos isn't an enemy, nor a savor but a legitimate way of doing business, unlike Patent Trolls.

Patent Trolls, buys Patents (technically, having a Patent assigned to them.) and then just sit on it until a major company clearly makes serious headway into that industry and then out of the blue, sues the company claiming they are using their Patents, even though that Corporation might have been working on the idea for years, spending millions to create a market and advertising, distribution channels, etc., etc. then the Patent Troll claims they want all of the past profits and future profits, normally worth tens of millions of dollars.  This is BS because the Patent Troll on purpose sits and watches companies build markets with products versus taking action immediately.  This is why Inventors and companies HATE Patent Trolls.  Laws need to change because I have seen mom-pop companies be built up and only to be taken down by a Patent Troll, for greed and nothing else.

Khronos group has nothing to do with H.264 patents, they manage and implement visual graphics standards like OpenGL and OpenCL, which Apple uses (and are royalty-free).  The reason why Vulkan isnt supported by Apple is because it's a competitor to Metal, just like MS does not support anything that competes w/ Direct 3D.