It's a matter of how many people you piss off. Ditch the browser, you have to change the whole web. Ditch the processor, and you have only a couple browsers t

It's a matter of how many people you piss off. Ditch the browser, you have to change the whole web. Ditch the processor, and you have only a couple browsers to change. Apple did, it you know? Changing from PowerPC to X86. And they had native applications to contend with. I believe they got away with an emulation mode of some kind, I'm not sure. I for one wouldn't like to see the web take over the way it currently does. It's a mess, and it encourages more centralization than ever. But if it does, that will be the end of x86. (Actually, x86 would die if any virtual machine took over.)