3 ms·
The announcement of an imminent transition to ARM could destroy the market for all existing Intel Macs.
by bluescrn 7y ago
The announcement of an imminent transition to ARM could destroy the market for all existing Intel Macs.
- braythwayt 7y agoI suspect Tim Cook is old enough to remember "The Osborne Effect" quite keenly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect That being said, like many urban legends, there is quite a bit of doubt as to whether the company's demise was caused by the pre-announcement, rather than by the fact that Osborne was trying to leverage its lead into bigger margins, without offering more computer for the dollar.
- jedieaston 7y agoIt didn't last time. Jobs went on stage to announce that Apple was starting a 2-year move to x86 from PPC, showed off a developer kit, then proceeded to announce a few more PowerPC products that were sold in the mean time. If they play it the same way this time and provide developer tools to make the transition easy-peasy, there's no reason it won't work fine.
- solarkraft 7y agoI suppose the most important question regarding the potential success this time is: Can they emulate with as little performance loss as last time?