That is some big talk for a platform that still comes out of reset into 8086-compatible real mode.
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We've had people declaring the impending ascent of Arm or RISC-V for years now, and the market hasn't budged.
That has more to do with Microsoft and Qualcomm’s ineptitude.
Apple laptops are great because they’re just normal PCs that have great battery life. Also, they have full performance with or without a power cord.
Tbf, Apple has switched cpu architectures a few times, so they've got some decent experience porting and rewriting everything. And also their most popular devices were already running arm for over a decade when they switched on PC.
Also NVidia and Intel have been providing subpar hardware to Apple for years. There was tremendous incentive for Apple to have the entire stack under their own control. Microsoft doesn’t give a flying fuck about hardware as long as enterprises keep buying Office subscriptions.
They tried with that X86S and ended up scraping it.