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I think any company who feels they are in the lead with something competitive would do the same. The ones who open their standards were behind to begin with and that's their way of combating the proprietary competition.

>>jemmyw+(OP)
Belief in your own technology, even if it is good, as it turns out, is often insufficient to really win. At some point, in computing, you need some ecosystem buy in, and you almost certainly will not be able to go it alone.

Nvidia seems utterly disinterested in learning these lessons, decades in now: they just gets more and more competitive, less and less participatory. It wild. On the one hand they do a great job maintaining products like the Nvidia Shield TV. On the other hand, if you try anything other than Linux4Tegra (l4t) on most of their products (the Android devices wont work at all for anything but Android btw) it probably wont work at all or will be miserable.

Nvidia has one of the weirdest moats, of being open source like & providing ok-ish open source mini-worlds, but you have to stay within 100m of the keep or it all falls apart. And yea, a lot of people simply dont notice. Nvidia has attracted a large camp-followers group, semi-tech folk, that they enable, but who dont really grasp the weird limited context they are reserved on.

>>rektid+B
What do they get right with shield?

>>rektid+B
As much as I hate Nvidia, AMD and Intel have done themselves zero favors in the space.

It's not that hard--you must provide a way to use CUDA on your hardware. Either support it directly, transcompile it, emulate it, provide shims, anything. After that, you can provide your own APIs that take advantage of every extra molecule of performance.

And neither AMD nor Intel have thrown down the money to do it. That's all it is. Money. You have an army of folks in the space who would love to use anything other than Nvidia who would do all the work if you just threw them money.