This morning we wondered aloud about whether the iPhone 3G S would be splitting Apple’s mobile OS X platform. Looks like we weren’t the only ones wondering.
Engadget’s Chris Ziegler takes a look at the new hardware’s PowerVR SGX graphics-core’s support for OpenGL ES 2.0, and that led him to this language in Apple’s iPhone SDK documentation:

“When designing your OpenGL ES application, the first question you must answer is whether your application will support OpenGL ES 1.1, OpenGL ES 2.0, or both… Your application should target OpenGL ES 1.1 if you want to support all iPhones and iPod touches.”

Sure, with 40,000,000 iPhones and iPods touch on …

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iPhone 3G S and OpenGL ES 2.0 Hardware Accelerated Graphical Goodness Also a Platform Splitter?

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