All of the predictions / claims except for (1) seem very incorrect to me At the big corps that I've worked, my laptop is just a client to the machine that host

All of the predictions / claims except for (1) seem very incorrect to me At the big corps that I've worked, my laptop is just a client to the machine that hosts the code & does the builds (that machine has been a giant Linux desktop & an ec2 instance) We already see Apple chips in ec2. Today it's ostensibly "rent a machine to run your test suite" (although iiuc there's a 24h minimum rental), but I don't see any reason why it won't eventually be "just run your server on an apple cloud instance on ec2" (or develop locally in a container and deploy to that) Software is actually reducing the friction of deploying to a different machine than you develop on, and the proliferation of high end custom chips isn't going to change that