The opportunity cost of Apple refusing to sign Nvidia's OEM AArch64 drivers is probably reaching the trillion-dollar mark, now that Nvidia and ARM have their own server hardware.

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chuckadams 18 hours ago | parent [-]

Apple got out of the server game long before they adopted aarch64, so that's a trillion worth of server hardware they never would have sold anyway. And probably not actually a trillion.

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bigyabai 18 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Apple was the only one stopping themselves from getting back in. It's not like the Mac is a trillion-dollar market segment to begin with.

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QuantumNomad_ 17 hours ago | parent [-]

Almost everyone including myself had MacBook Pros at my last place of work.

If Apple was in the high-end server market, I see no reason why the company I was working for would not be running macOS on Apple hardware as servers, instead of the fleet of Linux based servers they had.

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	▲	bigyabai 14 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Why wait? You can go run macOS as a server right now. It will take you a few hours to get Docker working, and disable mdworker_shared() and turn off SIP, and then install a package manager/XCode utilities, and finally configure macOS to run as a headless UNIX box, but it's attainable. Despite how easy Apple makes it, nobody is really using Macs as a server in production. Apple[0] is not using them as a server in production. They would need a radically different strategy to replace Linux, because their efforts on macOS still haven't replaced Windows. [0] https://9to5mac.com/2026/03/02/some-apple-ai-servers-are-rep...

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varispeed 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

USD starts sounding more and more like meaningless tokens. Billion here, trillion there. I still have 100 trillion Zimbabwean dollars somewhere.

	▲	altairprime 17 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Feels like that here in the U.S., too.