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Okay, but this doesn't explain why they didn't move to amd instead. Changing architecture like this is not cheap. Besides, Apple just pissed off the entire sof

Okay, but this doesn't explain why they didn't move to amd instead. Changing architecture like this is not cheap. Besides, Apple just pissed off the entire software industry. Assume you are Adobe or Abelton and now have to spend serious money to very quickly port your software to arm64 without getting any new sales.

7demons 6y ago
Apple can do whatever they want. They are big enough.
- nix23 6y ago
  That's just true with their platform aka iPhone/iPad/iWatch but not with Software producers like Adobe etc...but maybe that's what they want.
  - sukilot 6y ago
    Apple builds hardware for Adobe for free. Adobe's job is to do their part and make software. With this switch, Apple is giving Adobe higher quality hardware to work with. And Apple is providing emulation layer for free.
    - nix23 6y ago
      >With this switch, Apple is giving Adobe higher quality hardware to work with Yeah must be an absolutely a great deal for Adobe...you know Adobe is not just the CreativeSuite. >higher quality hardware Lets see about that...
bleah1000 6y ago
I would guess that Apple always had plans to switch to their own arm cpus. Perhaps what happened is that their experience with Intel was so bad that they chose to accelerate those plans, rather than have to deal with AMD. Most likely Apple has a contract with Intel for some kind of deal on the price, so switching to AMD would incur a round of lawyers and negotiations to get a similar price. That doesn't come for free, so if they had other plans in the works, it would make sense to move faster rather than try and do something for a short period of time.
achairapart 6y ago
Maybe they tried (or somehow they will): https://www.macrumors.com/2020/02/07/macos-catalina-amd-apu-references/ https://www.macrumors.com/2020/02/07/macos-catalina-amd-apu-...

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Okay, but this doesn't explain why they didn't move to amd instead. Changing architecture like this is not cheap. Besides, Apple just pissed off the entire sof

by panpanna 6y ago

7demons 6y ago
Apple can do whatever they want. They are big enough.
- nix23 6y ago
  That's just true with their platform aka iPhone/iPad/iWatch but not with Software producers like Adobe etc...but maybe that's what they want.
  - sukilot 6y ago
    Apple builds hardware for Adobe for free. Adobe's job is to do their part and make software. With this switch, Apple is giving Adobe higher quality hardware to work with. And Apple is providing emulation layer for free.
    - nix23 6y ago
      >With this switch, Apple is giving Adobe higher quality hardware to work with Yeah must be an absolutely a great deal for Adobe...you know Adobe is not just the CreativeSuite. >higher quality hardware Lets see about that...
bleah1000 6y ago
I would guess that Apple always had plans to switch to their own arm cpus. Perhaps what happened is that their experience with Intel was so bad that they chose to accelerate those plans, rather than have to deal with AMD. Most likely Apple has a contract with Intel for some kind of deal on the price, so switching to AMD would incur a round of lawyers and negotiations to get a similar price. That doesn't come for free, so if they had other plans in the works, it would make sense to move faster rather than try and do something for a short period of time.
achairapart 6y ago
Maybe they tried (or somehow they will): https://www.macrumors.com/2020/02/07/macos-catalina-amd-apu-references/ https://www.macrumors.com/2020/02/07/macos-catalina-amd-apu-...