Today some people believe MS invented the desktop, and they will try to convince people they started the ARM transition when all they have is prototypes when there are companies already selling ARM computers(Linux and mac)today.
Give credit where credit is due: When OneLaptopPerChild started using ARM for computers, I remember companies laughing about it: "Just a phone with a screen", "just a toy for kids", "you can't do anything with ARM", "people want power, they are never going to tolerate this". This coming from people in the industry like Intel execs.
Then Apple used it for iPad and demonstrated that people would buy it. Apple has designed and already sold a lot of this and will offer an ARM Desktop in the future. The difference is that Apple uses to show finished products, not prototypes like MS loves to do since Windows 3.11 days.
[Edit:I'm wrong here, OLPC does not use ARM jet,but AMD, but the idea was that low power comp has been seen as a toy when it could transform mobile computing]
Today some people believe Apple invented the desktop too, indeed many elements of the Xerox Alto had been demonstrated in Doug Engelbart's mother of all demos for the NLS system in 1963, the NLS system itself being based on and inspired by the memex machine documented by Vannevar Bush in 1945. It's not always as clear as one thinks as to where credit is due. When it comes to the desktop it's as clear as mud, with PARC, GEM, Workbench, Windows and Mac OS all able to lay claim to firsts in their respective areas, which were to some extent imitated or copied in others.
Seriously though, at the risk of sounding like a fanboy, it seems clear that Apple is leading the way here.
Highly-portable touch computing is where things look like they're going, and Apple is not moving off of Intel for the Mac. They noticeably didn't pick Intel's offerings for their iOS line, which is outselling the Mac by quite a bit.
There's definitely a transition going on here.
"If these ARM-based rivals can succeed in the market with their chips, they could break Intel’s near-monopoly on Windows PCs. And if Microsoft can do it, Apple probably can too."
Has me shaking my head. Apple already basically is doing that. I suppose you have to dumb tech news down in some cases, but still.