I think the recognition of “Apple showed that it’s not a big deal” would end similar to the one “The US showed that military invasions from superpowers into mid

I think the recognition of “Apple showed that it’s not a big deal” would end similar to the one “The US showed that military invasions from superpowers into middle powers are not a big deal”. The amount of raw effort that Apple put into making that transition _appear_ “no big deal” will be hard to adequately appreciate! It _noticeably_ affected software quality at least two MacOS versions prior (drop of 32-bit support and forcing all API accesses to go via their frameworks) and will have cost them hundreds of millions if not billions in engineering effort and unknowable amounts of lost sales in the mean time. Yes it paid off. Obviously. But emulating their move, I’m not sure if there is even a single company able to do that.