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The biggest questions many of us have around this transition include: a) Will this change be smooth and offer native enough app support (or emulation) at launc

The biggest questions many of us have around this transition include: a) Will this change be smooth and offer native enough app support (or emulation) at launch? b) Will the performance and price be acceptable? c) What will the ripple effect be throughout the existing Apple dev community? d) Is this move going to do well for Apple, or the opposite. I'm finding it tough to speculate on this one, but I've seen a lot of Apple misfires since 2013 when it comes to price, functionality and quality (should I dare say, "the butterfly effect"?). In short, Apple's direction hasn't been great recently. Given this, I think it more likely that the negatives will outweigh the positives.

truculent 6y ago
And yet the _most_ recent releases on the Mac lineup have been much improved. If that is the trajectory and not an outlier one could make the case for the positives outweighing the negatives!
arrrg 6y ago
I agree that the Mac trajectory wasn’t that great during the last decade with a lot of misfires. However, the most recent Mac picture is much more positive: Nearly the whole lineup is up to date, they butterly keyboard is out, many questionable design decisions were rolled back. I get that after nearly a decade of disappointment that‘s not enough to rebuild trust completely and there is still more than enough to be critical of, however the most recent positive moves to make me cautiously optimistic. Plus: Apple has managed these transitions extremely well in the past. That‘s something they are (or at least were) good at. Here they could also be helped by the fact that these transition times usually put any other extreme experiments on pause. I don’t expect Apple to switch out the CPU and also offer up a radical redesign (where they can make many wrong decisions), at least not across the product line. They also didn’t do that for the Intel transition.

truculent 6y ago

And yet the _most_ recent releases on the Mac lineup have been much improved. If that is the trajectory and not an outlier one could make the case for the positives outweighing the negatives!

arrrg 6y ago

I agree that the Mac trajectory wasn’t that great during the last decade with a lot of misfires. However, the most recent Mac picture is much more positive: Nearly the whole lineup is up to date, they butterly keyboard is out, many questionable design decisions were rolled back. I get that after nearly a decade of disappointment that‘s not enough to rebuild trust completely and there is still more than enough to be critical of, however the most recent positive moves to make me cautiously optimistic. Plus: Apple has managed these transitions extremely well in the past. That‘s something they are (or at least were) good at. Here they could also be helped by the fact that these transition times usually put any other extreme experiments on pause. I don’t expect Apple to switch out the CPU and also offer up a radical redesign (where they can make many wrong decisions), at least not across the product line. They also didn’t do that for the Intel transition.