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This is Alyssa Rosenzweig. She reverse-engineered Apple's M1 GPU with no public documentation and also developed an open-source Linux driver. (programming.dev)
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[–] 16 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Love that she did it, although I'm surprised they didn't sue her for contempt of business model (i.e. Some copyright BS)

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  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago* (4 children)

    If you mean Apple, it wouldn't really make sense for them to do that. Apple primarily generates income from hardware sales, so they wouldn't care if people run other software on the hardware they already bought.

    Edited to say: this doesn't really apply for the iPhone/iPad as the application ecosystem is locked down. macOS isn't though so users will do whatever they want anyway. There are even tiling window managers for macOS!

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    They don’t lock down macOS but it still has an App Store where Apple makes 30% on sales

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    If they were smart they would hire her

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