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Comment by bigyabai | Hacker News Reader

No, it's just a sign of Apple holding a decades-long grudge against Nvidia to their own detriment.

TBH, Nvidia kinda deserves this. Between the incredibly buggy forcedeth ethernet chipset, the 2010 era laptop GPUs with insane failure rates that caused a recall across the entire industry, and various other issues, Apple (and others) have legitimate reasons to avoid working with them.

Both of those issues are over 2 decades old. It's the equivalent of boycotting Apple for supporting IBM, you will not achieve anything since the "problem" is already fixed. I don't know how you can call that legitimate in good faith.

Apple had the opportunity to take Apple Silicon to the datacenter and become the #1 professional ARM microarchitecture in the world. It was Apple's stupid grudge that gave Nvidia everything they needed to sell thousands of their lazily-made Grace CPU.

Literally nothing that happened 15 years ago could possibly be cited as a good reason for a business to make a decision today.

Like, a significant portion of the people who were involved in any screwups made in the 2000s -- especially the more senior people who should get most of the blame -- are now retired.

Make decisions based on today and on reality. Apple holding a grudge against Nvidia today, if true (as we have no proof that it factors in, of course), is downright childish.

And there are no alternatives to Nvidia?

Why do you think NVDA is the most valuable company on planet Earth?

Because they're engaging in Enron-esque accounting tricks but because they admit what they're doing it's not illegal?

Nvidia's a monopoly. It's not inherently illegal to be one, but they're going to control the market until someone comes along to compete.

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