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Custom motherboards is an expertise Apple has built up over the years with the iPhone (of course they also do custom CPUs as well there!). A huge portion of bu
by com2kid 9y ago
Custom motherboards is an expertise Apple has built up over the years with the iPhone (of course they also do custom CPUs as well there!).
A huge portion of bugs and power issues on a modern PC stem from poor hardware drivers. Cutting out the middle man and just writing all the drivers themselves may very well be a net win for Apple if they want to keep a reputation for working hardware.
Then again they have gotten have their lighting out for display working quite right.
- itomato 9y agoApple have been making logic boards since the beginning. The inclusion of custom silicon isn't new either. Nor are in-house drivers for commodity equipmemt, as the move from NeXT Computer, Inc. to NeXT Software required it. As you point out, by ceasing to rely on third party IP in that custom silicon they reduce the complexity further still. 100% in-house widgets have been on the whiteboard at Apple for a long time.
- innagadadavida 9y agoIt is scaling out much better now thanks to large number of iPhones and watches sold. It is very difficult to do this on the scale of desktop computer sales.