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Does the underlying CPU platform matter anymore for most people? If they have some non-standard proprietary apps then for sure that's a big issue. But if most O

Does the underlying CPU platform matter anymore for most people? If they have some non-standard proprietary apps then for sure that's a big issue. But if most OS apps are recompiled, then you have iCloud apps too, the bigger hitters being onboard is key (Microsoft, Adobe). If you pretty much hit those key points then it begins to look like it'll be relatively straightforward. ARM Macs will increase Apple's profit per unit shipped as they get the CPU for free. No longer beholden to Intel's erratic road map and failure to deliver.

bluedino 6y ago
>> Does the underlying CPU platform matter anymore for most people? Developers. They want to run the same code on their machines as on their servers. Or in some cases a library might not be available (or behave differently) on one CPU family vs another. In theory this could accelerate adoption of ARM servers.
toyg 6y ago
It's unlikely Adobe will be on board. Porting their apps to ARM, even with a virtualization layer, is going to be hell. They dragged their feet last time around, I bet they will do that 1000x now. MS might decide that "the web is good enough" and just drop native Mac apps for the time being.
- mrkstu 6y ago
  Considering that Adobe has been actively porting creative cloud programs to iPad, I'd say the opposite. They've already been optimizing the existing code base for ARM, maybe with a heads up from Apple that this would be a good preparation for changes coming down the pipe on Mac...
  - toyg 6y ago
    "Porting" is a big word, in my limited experience. The i-apps from Adobe are nowhere near their desktop counterparts.
    - djrogers 6y ago
      Adobe is on record that those are ports - the core of the app is ported, but individual features don’t all make it over, or make sense on a touch device so you u e a feature disparity.

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Does the underlying CPU platform matter anymore for most people? If they have some non-standard proprietary apps then for sure that's a big issue. But if most O

by sys_64738 6y ago

bluedino 6y ago
>> Does the underlying CPU platform matter anymore for most people? Developers. They want to run the same code on their machines as on their servers. Or in some cases a library might not be available (or behave differently) on one CPU family vs another. In theory this could accelerate adoption of ARM servers.
toyg 6y ago
It's unlikely Adobe will be on board. Porting their apps to ARM, even with a virtualization layer, is going to be hell. They dragged their feet last time around, I bet they will do that 1000x now. MS might decide that "the web is good enough" and just drop native Mac apps for the time being.
- mrkstu 6y ago
  Considering that Adobe has been actively porting creative cloud programs to iPad, I'd say the opposite. They've already been optimizing the existing code base for ARM, maybe with a heads up from Apple that this would be a good preparation for changes coming down the pipe on Mac...
  - toyg 6y ago
    "Porting" is a big word, in my limited experience. The i-apps from Adobe are nowhere near their desktop counterparts.
    - djrogers 6y ago
      Adobe is on record that those are ports - the core of the app is ported, but individual features don’t all make it over, or make sense on a touch device so you u e a feature disparity.