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Apple's decision to block Nvidia from releasing drivers that it, and basically it alone, has responsibility for coding and supporting, is baffling. There's no issue of additional support requirements here... at least none that rise to any level of significance, given that Nvidia is more than capable of providing Apple with all the resources necessary to compensate for any support needed from them in the process of making drivers available for OS X, and Nvidia supports the end user. Nvidia has obviously successfully supported OS X through multiple revisions, all the way up to High Sierra, and there's no evidence that this has caused undue problems. Anyone using an eGPU or a PCIe card in older Mac Pros is well aware that these are not Apple products, and that the company to go to for support is not Apple, but the video card vendor. There's no difference, in that respect, with AMD, in how this breaks the standard "single point of support" 100% controlled platform paradigm that Apple usually operates under. In fact, any device connected via an external Thunderbolt expansion box is also going to break that paradigm, and people plug plenty of things besides video cards into these boxes, with the full understanding that they need to go to the vendor for support.