It's very impressive and I don't know why having software optimized to the hardware is a demerit point. That /is/ part of the impressive part. The CPU and Roset

It's very impressive and I don't know why having software optimized to the hardware is a demerit point. That /is/ part of the impressive part. The CPU and Rosetta2 are obviously designed to complement each other and the results speak for themselves on day one. The fact that little more than a recompile is needed to make native binaries (obviously lots of exceptions to that) is also impressive and a testament to the work done until now on iOS/iPhone/iPad ecosystem. Of course, some minor complaints that old 32-bit apps don't work, even on intel systems. Meanwhile we're on year 8 of false starts for Windows on ARM. In contrast to apple, a 10 year old 32-bit x86 app might work, but a recent app probably won't.