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Apple has never provided drivers for other operating systems, including windows. The drivers used for BootCamp aren’t even developed by them.
by unix_fan 6y ago
Apple has never provided drivers for other operating systems, including windows. The drivers used for BootCamp aren’t even developed by them.
- floatboth 6y agoWell, they clearly at least commissioned them from someone else, since they are the ones distributing them.
- wtallis 6y agoIntel Macs are literally PCs. The Windows drivers that Apple bundled up for Boot Camp were the same drivers that the respective component manufacturers provide for other PC OEMs to redistribute. In the entire history of Intel Macs, there have been very few components used by Apple for which there wasn't already an off-the-shelf Windows driver written by someone other than Apple for the sake of their non-Apple customers.
- floatboth 6y agoThey do include these too, but I'm mostly talking about stuff like the trackpads (before SPI, the protocol they ran over USB was also custom, not HID)
- astrange 6y agoNo, Macs have a lot of custom components, and the ones with Touch Bar or T2 added even more. Those have Apple developed Windows drivers.