It isn't like Apple hasn't jumped ship before. It remains to be seen if Apple can stay on top of the performance curve. Right now they are doing it, primarily,

It isn't like Apple hasn't jumped ship before. It remains to be seen if Apple can stay on top of the performance curve. Right now they are doing it, primarily, through capital intensive means. They have the best fab process, bought with capital investment and order guarantees, and some of the best ASIC and CPU arch heads in the world, bought with comp packages. It's like like there's some law of nature that means Apple will always be on top. We'll see what Intel does - they might go down the RISCV path for all we know, wherein their own talent richness may well put them at an advantage.