With Square, hardware updates don’t figure large for customers, while they often do with Nvidia. Square makes most of its money by selling their services. Nvidia makes their money by selling hardware. Does CUDA (and whatever else Nvidia software used to program their hardware) get included in the hardware price, or is it paid for separately? It’s also possible that it’s free, but there are saleable services connected with it. (Red Hat does this with Linux - the vanilla Red Hat version of Linux is free, but you can buy various add-ons [and custom software?] from Red Hat.)
1 Like