Mune yapfuura posvo, watinoshanda naye Pedro Rodas akatotaura kare kuunzwa kweMetal muOS X nokuti kunatsiridza kuita kwese kweMacs ese Kana zvasvika pakumhanya kunyorera, zvakadaro muchinyorwa chino ticha tsanangura zvishoma zvakadzama kuti ino graphic API ndeyei, kunyanya yakanangwa neA7, A8 uye A8X machipisi, akaunzwa gore rapfuura muIOS 8 uye ane yakashanduka kuva muyero mune ino inoshanda system uye izvo zvinofungidzirwa kuti zvichave zvakare mune OS X.
Sezvo vazhinji venyu munoziva, OS X uye iOS zvakavakirwa pa Vhura raibhurari dzeGL dzekugadzirisa mifananidzo uye kuti vane tarisiro yekutarisana nedzimwe mhinduro dzakadai seMicrosoft Direct3D 12 maraibhurari nekuvandudza GPGPU (General-chinangwa computing pane grafiti yekugadzirisa zvikamu) zvakanyanya sezvazvinogona uye ikozvino neMetal, kushandisa mukana weCompute Shaders tekinoroji. Nhanho yakazara kumberi iyo ichaita kuti vakuru maMacs vakwanise kutsigira OS X El Capitan inomhanya nekukurumidza uye kutsetseka kupfuura OS X Yosemite.
Semuenzaniso, Epic Mitambo, musiki weanozivikanwa Unreal Injini inoshandiswa zvakanyanya mukunyaradza uye PC Nekuda kwekuita kwayo kwakanakisa uye zvinopfuura zvinogamuchirwa mifananidzo, yakaratidza Metal ine zita idzva ravari kugadzira rinonzi Fortnight uye iro richawanikwa mukupera kwegore rino kune ese Mac nePC. Iko kushandiswa kwesimbi kwakabvumidza, sekutaura kwaEpic pachake, kuti mifananidzo yemhando yepamusoro inogona kugadzirwa kupfuura ingadai yakawanikwa pasina iyi API.
Iyo Mac yakagara iri "kufuratirwa" nemakambani mazhinji emitambo, ayo wakakoshesa Windows pachinzvimbo. Izvo zvinopesana nechinzvimbo cheIOS mukati meiyo nharembozha nhare, iyo, kunyangwe iine chikamu chidiki chemusika pane Android, ichiri chikuva chinobhadhara kupfuura vese kune vanogadzira mazhinji emitambo yakanakisa yepasirose pasirese.
Nesimbi paMac, Apple inotarisira kupa OS X kukurudzira munzvimbo ino uye kuwana zvakawanda kubva mukugona kweayo desktop desktop inoshanda mukati memitambo. Chero zvazvingaitika, Craig Federighi (SVP ye software yeinjiniya kuApple) akatosimbisa izvo zvese avhareji vashandisi sevashandi inozobatsirika kubva pane zvese zvingangoitika zveMetal.
