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I think it’s safe to say Apple has proved that wrong three times.
When they switched from Motorola to Power, then from Power to Intel, and latest from Intel to Arm.
If necessary software will be quickly modified, or it will run well enough on compatibility layers.

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vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Apples advantage is that it controls the whole stack from silicon to App Store. That’s a problem for all sorts of reasons, but here they can use that power to implement the shift in a way that minimally impact the users.

Keep in mind that M1 it’s not just an ARM CPU. It’s an ARM CPU that has specially designed features that to make Intel compatibility fast. Rosetta 2 is a marvel of technology, but it would run like crap on anything that does not have Intel memory model emulation in hardware.

If you are in a position where

Old binaries have to keep running indefinitely (ie the entire windows market) and

You have to buy regular ARM chips from a regular supplier without special x86 emulation support features

things are looking quite a bit less rosy for you.
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- Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  from silicon to App Store.
  
  Not ther case from Motorola to Power or Power to X86. Very similar software infrastructure to what PC’s have, with lots and lots of 3rd party software vendors.
  
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