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Partly true, except you forget the sad story of companies such as Nokia, or Creative labs, or HTC, or even Motorola, that barely exist if at all, after Apple d

Partly true, except you forget the sad story of companies such as Nokia, or Creative labs, or HTC, or even Motorola, that barely exist if at all, after Apple decimated their business model. Already, the PC laptop market is getting pummeled on both sides by Macs and Chromebooks, this will only accelerate that - no one with full conscience can recommend a PC laptop to a regular user anymore - go with a cheap chromebook or get an air at $1000. Furthermore, the biggest casualty here is probably going to be Intel: graviton and M1 clearly show ARM is the future, so someone on the PC side is going to step up and create the M1 competition. It's probably not going to be as good but comparable, but it'll go circles around x86 again. This will then accelerate the transformation of more and more software to ARM compatibility and intel will probably play a similar song to Nokia or IBM and play a sad slow tune of death while it's only customers would be lazy monoliths sticking to their old server architectures.

webmobdev 6y ago
> no one with full conscience can recommend a PC laptop to a regular user anymore - go with a cheap chromebook or get an air at $1000. Absolutely no. Nobody with a conscience should recommend closed systems with less and less options for us consumers. The biggest advantage that AMD and Intel have over ARM is the software support they have and that means more freedom and choice for us than any similar ARM system. I've said it before - I bought an Intel Mac only because it gave me the option to not be trapped in Apple's clutches. And I certainly won't buy an Apple computer anymore unless I know for sure that it doesn't restricting my computing freedom anymore. (But there is no indication to that as Big Sur shows, Apple has tightened its control on macOS by preventing application firewalls from blocking Apple apps - an indication of how it further moves to turn macOS to a closed system like the ios.) And it is precisely for this reason that I don't see Intel or AMD dying out anytime soon.

webmobdev 6y ago

> no one with full conscience can recommend a PC laptop to a regular user anymore - go with a cheap chromebook or get an air at $1000. Absolutely no. Nobody with a conscience should recommend closed systems with less and less options for us consumers. The biggest advantage that AMD and Intel have over ARM is the software support they have and that means more freedom and choice for us than any similar ARM system. I've said it before - I bought an Intel Mac only because it gave me the option to not be trapped in Apple's clutches. And I certainly won't buy an Apple computer anymore unless I know for sure that it doesn't restricting my computing freedom anymore. (But there is no indication to that as Big Sur shows, Apple has tightened its control on macOS by preventing application firewalls from blocking Apple apps - an indication of how it further moves to turn macOS to a closed system like the ios.) And it is precisely for this reason that I don't see Intel or AMD dying out anytime soon.