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Apple switching to Arm would be near impossible given many people run windows on apple and other non-apple programs that won't be able to be emulated fast enoug
by gscott 8y ago
Apple switching to Arm would be near impossible given many people run windows on apple and other non-apple programs that won't be able to be emulated fast enough on Arm. Steve Jobs might try that leap but Tim Cook won't want to scare anyone off from the Apple ecosystem.
- pjmlp 8y agoApple already did that transition multiple times. And running Windows on Apple hardware is not something that Apple cares about.
- xattt 8y agoI am still disappointed that the menu item for Boot Camp to “log off and boot into Windows” never made it into the OS.
- dwaite 8y agoIIRC it was there in betas for a while. Typically when a feature was pulled from OS X betas it was either because it was too broken to make the release date, or patents.
- threeseed 8y ago1. The expected plan was to transition the MacBooks across first. Those users were never able to run Windows properly anyway and their apps aren't likely to be CPU bound. 2. The idea isn't to emulate OSX apps. It's to repurpose them to run on ARM. And they been doing this with all of the App Store apps for years: https://thenextweb.com/apple/2015/06/17/apples-biggest-developer-news-at-wwdc-that-nobodys-talking-about-bitcode/ https://thenextweb.com/apple/2015/06/17/apples-biggest-devel...
- lawnchair_larry 8y agovmware runs fine on macbooks