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Plus moving desktops/laptops to ARM would require a giant effort of developer opt-in and monetary investment industry wide. I don't think company experience with mobile/tablets via the App Store is a sufficient example of buy-in to say it will be a viable choice.

There's a ton of random MacOS software that would need to be ported, upgraded, or virtualized which could take a full decade to really cover the full ~99%, with the last 1%+ mostly dying off.

Apple usually doesn't like running two product lines with arm/x86 options, so it would probably be some weird transition thing.




> ...would require a giant effort of developer opt-in...

I'm not sure how true that is, there are a ton of workflows that can run solely on iPads. The problem is largely physical form factor and a little bit of UX smoothing for desktop computing on bigger screens.

I don't see it as a forgone conclusion that ARM Macs need to bring over the legacy software, why can't they just use what's present in iOS? If I want to design a form, I care less about the name on the app than I do about how well it works.

I think a lot of desktop MacOS developers are in for a very rude awakening about how irreplaceable their apps really are.




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