Well the comment above (which I assume you didn’t read) implied that ARM would have to changes it’s business practices to remain competitive. Whereas I think it

Well the comment above (which I assume you didn’t read) implied that ARM would have to changes it’s business practices to remain competitive. Whereas I think it’s current businesses model is the main reason it’s still competitive. Longterm I’m afraid that a completely open ISA might result in a less competitive market as long the cost of developing competitive cores is high enough. All top players could just start behaving like Apple and just keep their cpus for their own products/cloud services instead of selling them at commodity prices and losing a competitive advantage. So having a ‘neutral’ player like ARM might still be preferable.