> ... not because Apple intentionally hampered other OSes ... Apple went out of their way to support projects like Asahi. Yeah, right - if "Apple went out of t

> ... not because Apple intentionally hampered other OSes ... Apple went out of their way to support projects like Asahi. Yeah, right - if "Apple went out of their way" to help them, they wouldn't have to reverse-engineer the ARM M1 Macs to figure out how to run things on it. "Apple going out of their way" would be them releasing hardware drivers for Linux or xBSD - you know, like they have been doing for Windows in the past. Developing drivers can consume some resources at Apple and may be too much to expect for every OS platform. But still, if they genuinely wanted to support a multi-os environment, they could make public the hardware APIs so others system engineers could develop drivers for the hardware more easily, instead of struggling with having to reverse engineer everything they are not familiar with. > They could have trivially locked everything down Yes, technically, it is trivial now for them to lock the bootloader and completely lock down every mac with a firmware update. But commercially it is not yet a viable move for them as the backlash to such a move would generate a lot of bad PR that would hurt the sale and adoption of the ARM Macs. Apple learnt that lesson when they introduced the Mac Minis with soldered RAM and SSDs - it was the worse selling Mac Minis, and they were forced to step back and reintroduce another model with removable RAMs.