things do not need to be recognized by Apple. Do you think every usb device/product that works in os x was made by people that sat down with Apple and got their blessing? Apple wouldnt survive in the desktop market if every developer needed to kiss their ring. I have a yamaha usb device, and im pretty sure the kext to make it run was developed without having to go through apple. NVIDIA doesnt need apple. Apple is the one that will potentially need NVIDIA. Why? NVIDIA can make their cards run on Apple without apples permission. Apple will only order mass NVIDIA cards when the NVIDIA cards make the most economical sense. This will happen even if Apple is "mad" at NVIDIA over "supporting hackintosh" (which merely making cards work in Macos does not innately equal "they support hackintosh!", but even if they openly did), since Apple has to choose the best card at any given moment despite their "feelings". Apple isnt going to lose millions over a tantrum. They have investors. In any case, I said **** it, and got a 980 ti (selling my 1070).