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Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs

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Re: Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs

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Post by wtallis »

dd_xplore wrote: post #53

Why does Apple need to make the drivers in a walled garden? Atleast they should support major device categories with official drivers.

Doesn't Apple support the major standard device categories: NVMe, XHCI, AHCI, and such, like most operating systems do? The challenges are all for hardware that needs a vendor-specific driver instead of conforming to a standard driver interface (which doesn't always exist). Lots of those can be supported with userspace drivers, which can be supplied by third parties instead of needing to be written by Apple.

Re: Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs

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Post by kllrnohj »

TheDong wrote: post #58
deepsun wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't purchase? I don't own any Apple devices, everything works fine.

Unfortunately, Apple still won't release iMessage for Android or Linux (unlike every other messenger platform, like whatsapp, telegram, wechat, microsoft teams, etc, which are all cross-platform). Because of that, you need an apple device around to be able to deal with iMessage users.

Why? Just make iMessage users put up with green bubbles if they want to talk to you?

Thanks to Apple co-opting phone numbers, there's literally no need to ever have iMessage for anyone

Re: Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs

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Post by [deleted] »

sunnybeetroot wrote: post #69
TheDong wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately, Apple still won't release iMessage for Android or Linux (unlike every other messenger platform, like whatsapp, telegram, wechat, microsoft teams, etc, which are all cross-platform). Because of that, you need an apple device around to be able to deal with iMessage users.

That is no longer true. https://bluebubbles.app/ Well… it’s not exactly no longer true, you do need an Apple VM but it doesn’t have to be the end device.

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Re: Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs

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Post by selectodude »

TheDong wrote: post #66
Underphil wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think any of what you're describing are legal "monopolies". I don't have a single Apple product in my life but I'm fairly sure there's nothing I'm prevented from doing because of that.

And back in the "Microsoft has a monopoly on IE6" ruling's days, I did not use Windows or Internet Explorer, and I was not prevented from doing anything because of that. Netscape Navigator on Linux worked fine. Sure, I occasionally hit sites that were broken and only worked in IE, but I also right now frequently hit apps that are "macOS only" (like when Claude Cowork released, or a ton of other YC company's apps). Mi…

Microsoft was found guilty of using their market power to do product bundling, which is illegal. The fact that they had dominance in the market is not what they got popped for, nor is it illegal.

Re: Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs

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Post by mort96 »

manmal wrote: post #10
wmf wrote: post #3

Pretty misleading. This driver is only for compute not graphics.

Graphics was not what came to mind when I saw the headline.

Graphics is typically what comes to my mind when people talk about graphics processing units

Re: Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs

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Post by mort96 »

whalesalad wrote: post #73
mort96 wrote: post #72

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I mean when it comes time to output the image from the GPU, I don't want to add a hundred milliseconds of network latency...

This is re gpu for compute not graphics.

Oh. Weird use for a graphics unit.

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Post by Underphil »

TheDong wrote: post #66
Underphil wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think any of what you're describing are legal "monopolies". I don't have a single Apple product in my life but I'm fairly sure there's nothing I'm prevented from doing because of that.

And back in the "Microsoft has a monopoly on IE6" ruling's days, I did not use Windows or Internet Explorer, and I was not prevented from doing anything because of that. Netscape Navigator on Linux worked fine. Sure, I occasionally hit sites that were broken and only worked in IE, but I also right now frequently hit apps that are "macOS only" (like when Claude Cowork released, or a ton of other YC company's apps). Mi…

Yes, but that was coupled with other factors like them strongarming vendors, already being hugely dominant on desktops and abusing that position et al. I don't see this as being the same. Maybe my bar here is wrong, but it doesn't change whether they are a monopoly or not.
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