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Apple Turns Its Back on Customers and Nvidia with MacOS Mojave

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Re: Apple Turns Its Back on Customers and Nvidia with MacOS Mojave

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scarface74 wrote: post #79
ksec wrote: post #78

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That is Sales Volume, but its 100M Active Devices, is way slower than what most predicted. Apple took more than 2 years to add 10M Active Devices, on a ~40+M Unit sold during that time, that means 30M are either replacement or, there are quite a high churn rate to Mac. It is possibly the only reason why Apple suddenly come up with iMac Pro, new MacBook Retina etc. It wasn't the sales that matters, it was user leaving…

Why does Apple care about active users for the Mac and not sales volume? Active users for iOS devices makes sense. Apple gets recurring revenue from iOS users. Hardly anyone uses the Mac App Store or buys iCloud storage just for the Mac and OS upgrades are free.

You will need a user base for Software Distribution. Will you design your software for a 10M or 100M Mac user. If you are changing to a Services product that only oriented around your products, the more user the better.

Re: Apple Turns Its Back on Customers and Nvidia with MacOS Mojave

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Post by scarface74 »

ksec wrote: post #81
scarface74 wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why does Apple care about active users for the Mac and not sales volume? Active users for iOS devices makes sense. Apple gets recurring revenue from iOS users. Hardly anyone uses the Mac App Store or buys iCloud storage just for the Mac and OS upgrades are free.

You will need a user base for Software Distribution. Will you design your software for a 10M or 100M Mac user. If you are changing to a Services product that only oriented around your products, the more user the better.

It depends on the software...

I wouldn't care about the overall number of users, just the number of users in the market that I'm targeting. The creative market didn't abandon Apple when the overall Mac market was in dire straights because the market they cared about still had a lot of Mac users.

From what I can see, the consumer market for software is basically dead. Is anyone making serious money on non game personal computer software besides Adobe and Microsoft?

The smaller Mac only software companies are going by the "thousand true fans" strategy. Stay small and get a small loyal customer base.

Re: Apple Turns Its Back on Customers and Nvidia with MacOS Mojave

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Post by johnmw »

bjpbakker wrote: post #64
joshstrange wrote: post #62

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> In fact my own 15" MBP late 2013 has a GFX750, which is no longer supported according to Apple Support [1] That support article doesn't mention the GFX 750 and I can't find any record of Apple selling a MBP with a GFX 750... Edit: I believe what you meant to say is you have a "NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M with 2GB of GDDR5 memory and automatic graphics switching" [0] which it appears does not support metal. [0] https://s…

You're correct about the card, sorry about that. Got confused I suppose. Indeed I meant to say I have the GT 750.

As a sibling comment pointed out, it seems it does appear to be supported? I have the same machine:

  Chipset Model:	NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M
  Type:	GPU
  Bus:	PCIe
  PCIe Lane Width:	x8
  VRAM (Dynamic, Max):	2048 MB
  Vendor:	NVIDIA (0x10de)
  Device ID:	0x0fe9
  Revision ID:	0x00a2
  ROM Revision:	3776
  Automatic Graphics Switching:	Supported
  gMux Version:	4.0.8 [3.2.8]
  Metal:	Supported, feature set macOS GPUFamily1 v4
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