I don't think that the red and blue teams are that much behind. A high end AMD mobile processor like the Ryzen 7 5800HS easily beats the current M1 in most CPU

I don't think that the red and blue teams are that much behind. A high end AMD mobile processor like the Ryzen 7 5800HS easily beats the current M1 in most CPU bound multithreaded workloads, like compile times. Even if the numbers are true and the M1 MAX is 75% faster than the current M1 it will just be slightly faster than the AMD chip produced on an inferior process node. And the 5800HS you can get in laptops that cost like $800. The next generation of Intel CPUs Alder Lake, that also has a split between performance and efficiency cores, showed some promising numbers in current leaks and should be competitive with the M1 Max in CPU bound workloads. Where Apple shines are all this proprietary additions to the CPU that are massively going to benefit content creators (video & audio), but I as a developer don't think I can profit much from it and prefer to stick to open standards and technologies. I'm also super excited and can't wait to see what the next years bring us. As you said it, we are going to be the biggest winners here.