alt Hacker NewsApple is a vertical company. They don’t WANT to sell you hardware. They don’t want to sell you software.
They only want to sell the whole package. You might as well ask the Catholic Church to start a rap music 8-track only record club. Same probability.
The hardware is a means to an end, and nothing else to them.
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Nuvia started because a few Apple engineers wanted to make server CPUs and sell them. Apple management didn’t want to do it so they left and started their own company. They were acquired by Qualcomm.
There are talks of John Ternus potentially selling Apple Silicon for server and AI use.
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/09/16/apple-may-return-to-ser...
But Apple could make a lot of money selling Linux servers with their CPUs.
Mentioning a church in this context, we know what had to be done.
They don't want to sell software, but they do sometimes. They did more in the past.