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I think a lot of it is about commitment. Apple has a lot to lose whenever it changes the CPU architecture for Mac, especially if it gets stuck with two for long
by yakak 4y ago
I think a lot of it is about commitment. Apple has a lot to lose whenever it changes the CPU architecture for Mac, especially if it gets stuck with two for longer than expected. For Qualcomm and similar, a foray in Notebooks is just something interesting. For Microsoft such a foray is always limited by its x86 ecosystem losses.
- karmakaze 4y agoMicrosoft has been known to do things half-heartily on both h/w and s/w: phone OS, Windows RT, UWP, app store, etc. Even the Internet Explorer to Edge transition was long overdue, but not too late. The way MS works is very much like Google where they have their cash cows and everything else seems like a diversion until they miss the boat on a new thing and it's too late. Remember that Windows NT originally supported x86, MIPS, Alpha but haven't taken it further. They also make entire toolchains that could make building for multi-targets as seamless as they choose save final validation.