Classic monopoly move: Control the user base, then control hardware. Any decent ...

GeekyBear · 2026-08-31T20:13:33

> Classic monopoly move: Control the user base, then control hardware

Classic monopoly move by who?

Apple created MLX as an open source framework to allow users to run any open model locally.

bel8 · 2026-08-31T20:19:12

just to clarify, models already ran locally without MLX years before it existed, on non-Apple environments.

MLX was just Apple's bridge to what already ran in other hardware.

GeekyBear · 2026-08-31T20:52:48

MLX is an open source framework that allows you to run open models in a manner optimized for Apple's hardware.

You can take advantage of larger amounts of memory, higher memory bandwidth, and clustering multiple systems.

How is using an open source framework to run open models a monopoly move?

Danox · 2026-09-01T00:24:14

Apple Pay is a bridge too because at the time the other pay services didn’t care about doing anything for the Mac, and over the years that’s the way it’s been that’s the way it goes when you’re the last vertical computer company left from the 1980s, the Apple Watch and Apple Maps is also a bridge for the same reason…