Sorry, I don't see how apple has cut anyone out of their ecosystem, unless your opinion is that Apple should simply have stuck with intel, despite their own har

Sorry, I don't see how apple has cut anyone out of their ecosystem, unless your opinion is that Apple should simply have stuck with intel, despite their own hardware being better by every metric? As for cutting people out: every piece of software, including x86 I have tried has worked without a hitch. If your problem is that you need an x86 VM, then yeah you're kind hosed unless maybe intel&amd decided release their ISA royalty free? Alternatively, you could just not write awful architecture dependent software, like all those developers happily using ARM laptops without a problem are mysteriously capable of.