Apple historically dislikes NVIDIA and I they would likely rather use their own in-house chip team. They also rely on it by virtue of using OpenAI in upcoming iOS release.
I wonder if the split happened with jobs or after jobs? I thought jobs was good at relationships with everyone else in silicon valley (intel, ati, nvidia, even microsoft)
Apple dropped Nvidia after a few years of Nvidia falsifying thermal specifications on GPU chips.
It drove apple crazy both with high failure rate of MacBooks where the GPU was desoldering itself and general problem of a hot as fuck bottom. Nvidia refused to pay out for damages to Apple as well from what I recall.
IIRC it was with Jobs. Apple wanted to develop their own drivers for their chips from ground up, and NVIDIA was very secretive of their tech, so things went south.
On their own right, they contribute more than many other companies, though. Their kernel is open source, they have given their secret sauces like Grand Central Dispatch away, allowed complex technologies like mDNS (Bonjour), AirPrint, multipath networking to be implemented freely and used widely in a vendor agnostic manner.
macOS is 1000 times better for talking UNIX systems than Windows and is POSIX compliant.
Lastly, they are not hindering the development of Asahi Linux, and did nothing when their devices were reverse engineered. On the contrary, they left a couple of ways open for Asahi guys to boot their distribution directly.
They are not the band of saints, but they are not the underhanded evils like a couple of others.
