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To further build the bad blood, Nvidia at some point tried to get Apple to license some patents from them related to mobile computing (AKA, they wanted a cut of iPhone sales). I'm pretty sure there was some legal action around this time to try to get Nvidia to pay for the cost of the repairs, tho I don't know how that wound up.
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and I am fairly sure it could be triggered via Chrome) that affected almost every MacBook Pro for two years (2011-2013), oh, and there was *ANOTHER* nvidia bug that caused problems in the 2007-2008 range. Off the top of my head, Nvidia screwups caused some product delay (or maybe it was delay*s* ?), and then they had a GPU bug that was causing kernel panics and other such fun (randomly rebooting your machine for you, etc. If you spot a mistake, please correct them in the comments)īecause Apple and Nvidia have beef going back like a decade or more. (I wrote this of the top of my head while being incredibly tired, and thus give no guarantee that my memory on this matter is 100% factual. Apple then denied this certificate to the nVidia driver, which is why nVidia GPUs are useless in Mojave.
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However, with Mojave Apple required all externally provided drivers to go through some kind of "certification" process. Until Mojave this was not a problem for nVidia users, since nVidia could just provide the drivers themselfes, which they did. Since both nVidia and Apple did not want to compromise, Apple went to the only competitor, AMD, which provides excellent open source drivers.
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(As a sidenote, this is also the reason why the open source linux driver sucks so much for modern nVidia cards, the poor kernel devs had to reengineer these APIs from scratch.) However, nVidia does not allow them insight into their APIs, which is why they cant acces most functionality of modern nVidia cards. Apple doesn't want to be dependent on nVidia for drivers, they want to be able to provide a driver themselfes if they need to. Its a little more complicated than that tho. It’s not like NVIDIA doesn’t want to sell their product in a Mac. They have cards and drivers internally ready to go for macOS but Apple says, no thanks. And now NVIDIA is the one stitching outside the Windows of the Apple Stire while it rains. They can’t do anything without handing off their to Apple first. Now it’s AMD who’s given the red carpet but even then it’s a struggle.

They were ready to go but Apple didn’t want it. If I had taken that card and popped it in my G5, it wouldn’t work. At Macworld in 2006, ATI didn’t even have a booth on the show floor, they rented a side room outside of Macworld and demoed their latest GPU inside a Power Mac G5 even though it was not supported. NVIDIA was allowed in while AMD/ATI was shown the door (for the most part). Back in the PowerPC days, the tables were somewhat turned.

Both NVIDIA and AMD want their product inside Macs. I’ve talked to people at NVIDIA, AMD, and Apple. This subreddit is not endorsed or sponsored by Apple Inc. If you'd like to view their content together, click here. This fundamental difference in audience is why we support two communities, r/Apple and r/AppleHelp. Apple SubredditsĬontent which benefits the community (news, rumors, and discussions) is valued over content which benefits only the individual (technical questions, help buying/selling, rants, etc.).

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