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Re:Apple limits daisychaining of non-Apple displays in OS X by the_mitsuhiko on Sunday June 07, 2015 @08:53AM (#9674452)
OS X generally has terrible 3D support and the same hardware on Windows will perform much better. That's unfortunate but no reason to go to court for.

Apple writes their own device drivers and they write them to the extend their software and hardware needs it and no step further.

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Re:Apple limits daisychaining of non-Apple displays in OS X by chris_wot on Sunday June 07, 2015 @09:01AM (#9674481)
It seems to be intentional though. I seem to recall Microsoft and IBM got into big trouble for anti-competitive conduct. This is the sort of thing that brings about anti-trust suits.
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Re:Apple limits daisychaining of non-Apple displays in OS X by x0x0 on Sunday June 07, 2015 @03:41PM (#9676080)
Anti-trust on their whopping < 8% marketshare? You'd get laughed out of court.

All this because osx doesn't do a thing that apple never claimed osx did.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_system...

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Re:Apple limits daisychaining of non-Apple displays in OS X by kjhsadklj1 on Sunday June 07, 2015 @09:39PM (#9676994)
It seems intentional in a "it would cost resources to extend this past what we benefit" way. In other words, a business made a cost-benefit analysis.

I fail to see where your frustration is coming from, or why it's targeted at Apple. It's most likely just a calculated cost savings measure.

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Re:Apple limits daisychaining of non-Apple displays in OS X by tracker1 on Monday June 08, 2015 @12:17AM (#9677298)
The frustration is targeted at Apple, because someone there likely made this decision... The support was likely already written, and expressly removed, because Apple makes Thunderbolt monitors. Not to mention that Apple is known for it's wide profit margin, so any cost/benefit analysis is less meaningful in that regard.

I'm not sure where you think said frustration should be directed.

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Re:Apple limits daisychaining of non-Apple displays in OS X by m_mueller on Monday June 08, 2015 @02:09AM (#9677449)
Rather than speculating on what Apple did internally, I think the real question is whether Apple advertises DisplayPort 1.2 support, since this feature is part of the DP 1.2 spec. So far I can't find anything about this on their product pages. If that's the case it's basically users demanding features that were never put into the specs of a product.
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Re:Apple limits daisychaining of non-Apple displays in OS X by chris_wot on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @04:45AM (#9690704)
Then Apple is in trouble:

Mini DisplayPort Connector

The Mini DisplayPort Connector is a small form factor connector designed to fully support the VESA DisplayPort protocol. It is particularly useful on systems where space is at a premium, such as portable computers or to support multiple connectors on reduced height add-in cards.

https://developer.apple.com/softwarelicensing/agreements/min...

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Re:Apple limits daisychaining of non-Apple displays in OS X by zimpenfish on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @05:17AM (#9690783)
It doesn't say which version though.
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Re:Apple limits daisychaining of non-Apple displays in OS X by chris_wot on Saturday June 20, 2015 @12:53AM (#9749035)
Mini DisplayPort started from 1.2 of the DisplayPort standard.
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Re:Apple limits daisychaining of non-Apple displays in OS X by threeseed on Sunday June 07, 2015 @09:09AM (#9674508)
1) It's not intentional though.

2) Apple doesn't prevent you using dual monitors via other means e.g. USB / HDMI.

3) Microsoft/IBM had ridiculously high market shares (>90%). OSX is around 10%.

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