While it may be petty to say, I think it is accurate to point out that this sort of news tends to lead people to focus on the "winning" commodity architectures

While it may be petty to say, I think it is accurate to point out that this sort of news tends to lead people to focus on the "winning" commodity architectures, in this case x64 and ARM, and minimize the use of other architectures. If I were starting a business today, you'd have to give me free hardware that used POWER or SPARC cpu in order to persuade me to use it. The last thing I want is to have to switch hardware platforms; and thus x64 and ARM are the safe choices.