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It makes me sad that no one will never be able to build anything with those chips. I imagine there could me many, many innovative products built with these chi
by turbinerneiter 5y ago
It makes me sad that no one will never be able to build anything with those chips.
I imagine there could me many, many innovative products built with these chips if Apple sold them and supported Linux (or even Windows).
- userbinator 5y ago...or just released the full documentation for them. Apple being Apple and wanting full control over its users, I don't see that happening. I really don't care how fast or efficient these are, if they're not publicly documented all I think is "oh no, more proprietary crap". Apple might even make more $$$ if it wanted to open up, but it doesn't.
- uerobert 5y agoWhat do you mean? All the APIs (Xcode SDK, Metal, ML, etc) required to build on their devices are very well documented.
- turbinerneiter 5y agoI'm not talking about apps on their devices, I'm talking about new types of devices based on their processors. If these were available for others to buy, I think we would be very surprised by the innovative new devices people would invent.
- userbinator 5y agoI mean the documentation of the SoC itself. The thousands (or perhaps tens of thousands) of pages of information about every register and peripheral on it.
- zionic 5y agoImagine if apple was forced (via anti trust laws) to spin off their CPU division...
- viktorcode 5y agoThey wouldn't have existed in this form then. Open chip market has very different needs, and SoCs are designed accordingly.