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Hardly. Apple's drivers are notorious for their... "idiosyncrasies." Not to mention that at best, you can expect 4.1 support.

> With OpenGL at least all major platforms where covered.

That is a misconception, game consoles never fully supported OpenGL.

The PS3 was the exception with Open GL ES 1.0 + NVidias Cg for shaders, most developers just cared about Sony's own APIs anyway.

What they have are APIs, that to certain extent follow OpenGL concepts.

OpenGL was also universally very buggy so most applications opted to use DirectX on Windows even though OpenGL was available.

MoltenVK apparently fixes this.

Apple's choice, since they try to push metal and related instead.