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This is a typical corporate type view of it. I.e that its least profitable so doesnt matter. It misses, developers use Macs to build stuff => It's easy to make
by neximo64 6y ago
This is a typical corporate type view of it. I.e that its least profitable so doesnt matter.
It misses, developers use Macs to build stuff => It's easy to make arm compatible applications => The server (most profitable) domino falls.
I can imagine moving straight to ARM processors if its easy enough to work on and AWS/Google has a deployment option.
The dominos can cascade really fast, particularly in where the new demand for chips comes in, vs the existing one that will just run as it is now.
- yangminded 6y agoAWS will offer ARM based EC2 instances. If Intel doesn't come up with a drastic turnaround, they are going to be Nokia'd. https://aws.amazon.com/de/ec2/instance-types/a1/ https://aws.amazon.com/de/ec2/instance-types/a1/
- pjmlp 6y agoIndeed, as developer I use Macs to build iOS and macOS stuff.
- sheeshkebab 6y agoMost developers using Macs don’t touch iOS and macOS dev with 10 foot pole.
- pjmlp 6y agoThose "developers" shouldn't complain that Apple doesn't care about them, as they should have given their money to a Linux/BSD OEM. Apparently only UNIX has developers, the rest of us are something else.