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It would be weird (and cool) if Apple ends up being the company to provide easy off the shelf access to a powerful Arm workstation.
by jagger27 6y ago
It would be weird (and cool) if Apple ends up being the company to provide easy off the shelf access to a powerful Arm workstation.
- klelatti 6y agoMore of a case of "skating to where the puck is going". I know it's a bit of a cliche but it feels to me like Apple might have got its timing right on this one.
- ed25519FUUU 6y agoTiming is something Apple does really well. It's almost never the "first" to anything, but it waits until all of the stars align and then invest heavily.
- nonesuchluck 6y agoIt's not just heavy investment at their moment of need, it's also a habit of nurturing unlikely Plan B's for years and decades. - When Apple founded ARM in 1990 with Acorn and VLSI, they didn't know that silly cacheless chip would become a world-beating juggernaut. But hey, as founders, they now have a license to mold the microarchitecture however they like. - When Apple bought NeXT in 1997, they didn't know the sun was slowly setting on PowerPC. But they secretly nursed along the (already built) NeXTSTEP x86 port for years, until the time came to dust it off and start shipping product with Intel Inside. - When Apple forked KHTML in 2001 and started building WebCore/WebKit, they didn't know that MS was about to leave Internet Explorer to wither on the vine, nor release the final Mac IE only 2 years later. But they quietly invested in building such a konquering (sorry!) product that (with Google/MS help) we're now at risk of an entirely different browser monoculture.
- fanf2 6y agoA small historical correction: the ARM3 (first ARM with a cache) predates the spin-off of ARM as a separate company. The Acorn Archimedes A540 (with ARM3) was released mid 1990 and ARM was founded later that year.