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Emulation would indeed kill the advantage of ARM, but I can see Apple slashing the ecosystem (again) and allowing only vetted apps that go through their OSX app

• masklinn 15y ago
  > I can see Apple slashing the ecosystem (again) As far as I know, they have never done that without a pretty long transition period so far: * The 68k -> PPC transition had a low-level 68k emulator in PPC for a pretty long time * The OS9 -> OSX transition had Classic for emulation (until Tiger) and Carbon for recompilation (which still worked in Snow Leopard, not sure about Lion) * The PPC -> Intel transition provided Rosetta from Tiger to Snow Leopard * The 32b -> 64b transition took 4 years from 64b Cocoa introduction in Leopard (Tiger already had support for 64b headless processes, but that does not really count), and I believe Lion still has no problem running x86/32 binaries (even though 32b CPUs can't run Lion)