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Re:Native Linux GPU Driver for Apple M1 by makeitdouble on Friday September 30, 2022 @04:12AM (#33032309)
Trying to take a non cynical take: at a business level Apple's hardware business was growing while other makers were having a hard time, and I think with their current advancement in processor tech and sheer production quality, they have captured most of the market they were probably expecting to capture.

At this point, trying to expand the user base through sheer hardware improvement or trying to include fringe groups (windows dual boot users, linux user) probably has diminishing returns.

In contrast, service revenue, app revenue and accessories like air pods, the Apple Watch have a much better ROI.

What I'm coming at: they have little incentive to work hard to expand the user base, and a better ROI on expanding revenue from users of their software platform. So I'm not holding my breath on Apple actively helping for windows or linux support anytime soon.

Re:Native Linux GPU Driver for Apple M1 by amelius on Friday September 30, 2022 @05:05AM (#33032642)
So what you are saying is that engineers at Apple have nothing to say about this?
Re:Native Linux GPU Driver for Apple M1 by pdpi on Friday September 30, 2022 @06:29AM (#33033136)
They do, demonstrably, have some sort of say. The M1 Macs have had deliberate support for 3rd party OSes since more or less day 1 (just not exposed/advertised), and Apple made some early changes to enable Asahi. Some recent comments by marcan on the topic:

https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1554395184473190400

Re:Native Linux GPU Driver for Apple M1 by amelius on Friday September 30, 2022 @08:53AM (#33034199)
I don't see engineers having a say here. Instead, I see a lot of praying, begging and hoping in that thread.
Re:Native Linux GPU Driver for Apple M1 by saagarjha on Friday September 30, 2022 @09:58PM (#33043051)
What do you want, engineers explicitly coming out and saying they designed the system to make this possible? Oh wait, they did.