I don't know to what extent I trust Apple's follow-through. But, purchasers will have more choices. And, Apple's silicon development appears to be top-notch.

I don't know to what extent I trust Apple's follow-through. But, purchasers will have more choices. And, Apple's silicon development appears to be top-notch. In addition, the company professes and demonstrates some ongoing concern about security. So, depending on Apple's ongoing hardware developments, Intel may face technical pressures on the security front with respect to processors and SoC. And Intel needs to match its technical developments with demonstrated concern for its users' security and not allowing its products to compromise same. Anyway... I hope the pressure stays on Intel. Going through the current process -- not just with Intel, but with system vendors -- wondering whether my several year old but still quite functional systems will be updated, and when. And right before that, the struggle to know what to do about the ME vulnerabilities. Some people have to be getting kind of tired of this. And now to carry continued tension, waiting for the next shoe to drop. In the phone world, Apple users don't seem to worry as much as Android users with respect to vulnerabilities. Because Apple usually patches them fairly quickly, and Apple also has used its muscle to bypass carriers' horrendously bad update support as witnessed in the Android world. Computer users aren't going to want to worry whether they're going to get a full life out of their computer, or have to stop using it for X months until a problem gets patched. Right now, most of them are pretty oblivious to the current chip problems. These problems start turning into active exploits, and that's going to change. Ok. Ramble over.