I think #1 would take a long time. ARM has an x86-esque foothold on mobile devices. Apple would have to do some straight up awful things to get people to move o

I think #1 would take a long time. ARM has an x86-esque foothold on mobile devices. Apple would have to do some straight up awful things to get people to move off of ARM. Apple is smarter than that. Instead, if this happens, it will be a slow boiling. I agree on #2 though, it doesn't make as much sense for Apple. This would sort of be diametrically opposed to the quite successful decision to use Intel CPUs.