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Despite having said for years that ARM based macs will be a thing, I no longer think this is the case. For Apple, it's simply not worth it. They've been conspi
by RantyDave 8y ago
Despite having said for years that ARM based macs will be a thing, I no longer think this is the case.
For Apple, it's simply not worth it. They've been conspicuously moving development resource from the mac to iDevices for the last ten years and the mac is increasingly becoming an (actually very good) development platform for the iDevices in question. I mean, c'mon, the big feature for the last release of macOS was a 'dark' skin ... and from the hardware side all we want is a keyboard that doesn't shit itself.
On the other hand the iPhone on it's own is one of the largest businesses on earth, and is under sustained attack by Google/Samsung/Huawei - the latter two of which are prepared to openly 'cheat' by any means possible. Under such circumstances would you throw significant resource at a dying market, ~10% revenue, where Intel are quite prepared to do the majority of the heavy lifting for you?
- jarjoura 8y agoThis is actually an argument for Apple to switch entirely to ARM. If they could consolidate engineers, it could continue to invest in Mac without needing crazy growth numbers to justify it.
- copperx 8y agoTrue, but the initial cash outlay is immense. Sure, Apple can deal with it. But is it worth it?