Re: My favorite irony…
The issue isn’t related to anything you mention, but rather to GPU support and hardware component lifecycle/market stability. There’s no channel to have custom Apple products outside of their official, current offerings, and for such bespoke software as media servers, it can be extremely difficult to adapt to Apple’s constantly changing hardware and software environments. The two most popular high end media servers (disguise and Green Hippo) use commercially available components with ample support from the manufacturers — support which Apple has never been forthcoming in providing. A lot of things hugely important to professional video are either inaccessible or absurdly convoluted on Apple kit…genlock, for example. Selling the hardware as a complete package also gives manufacturers a ton of control over the end product, whereas in an Apple world, you’re just a software vendor beset by the whims of a company hyper-focused on the consumer market.
Let’s not pass over the fact that $6000 worth of hardware gets you a powerful windows machine you couldn’t touch for less than $30k to Apple.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
