I think Apple just designed a better CPU than AMD and Intel could due to a variety of reasons. The fact that it's ARM seems to be mostly tangential if Apple if

I think Apple just designed a better CPU than AMD and Intel could due to a variety of reasons. The fact that it's ARM seems to be mostly tangential if Apple if had access to another architecture and invested a similar amount of money and resources into it for over 10 years the result would probably be similar. It’s not like Qualcomm or any other ARM manufacturer has anything remotely close to M-series SoC.