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A lot has changed over the last 40 years: • Smartphones • iPads and Android tablets • Chromebooks • Game consoles • The Phoenix-like return of the Mac (Abo
by strenholme 6y ago
A lot has changed over the last 40 years:
• Smartphones
• iPads and Android tablets
• Chromebooks
• Game consoles
• The Phoenix-like return of the Mac (About half of the shops I have seen in the last decade were mixed or Mac shops)
Point being, it’s a different world than it was 20 years ago, when one needed to run on Windows to be a viable software product.
Anyway, the M1 has excellent x86 emulation; it’s 50% as fast (if not better) as native ARM code.
And, yes, I felt Windows for ARM was not viable just 10 years ago: https://www.samiam.org/blog/20101224.html https://www.samiam.org/blog/20101224.html But a lot has changed since then.