We already have the evidence of how well it can work with the Intel transition. If anything, adding ARM to the Mac platform would be dramatically easier than th

We already have the evidence of how well it can work with the Intel transition. If anything, adding ARM to the Mac platform would be dramatically easier than the PPC-Intel transition because the ground work is already done: — Unlike in 2006, a greater proportion of current Mac apps are developed with architecture independence, whether intentionally or not. — Unlike in 2006, nearly all Mac developers are already using Apple's Xcode as their IDE. — Unlike in 2006, many Mac app developers will already be familiar with the ARM CPUs, because they'll have already worked with them on the iPhone and iPad. — Unlike in 2006, Apple has an additional motivating force called the Mac App Store. Apple would almost certainly require all new/updated apps in their store to be cross-compiled. So no, you're wrong. We've seen this before. We know how quickly it played out in 2006, despite that being objectively more difficult. This would be easy. All it would take is a 6 month transition period where ARM Macs are only marketed towards developers (and informed early adopters) combined with an x86 binary emulation layer to cater for straggling vertical/corporate apps.