A7: Apple's custom 64-bit silicon embarrassed the industry

Re:A7: Apple's custom 64-bit silicon embarrassed the industry by User23 on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @02:08PM (#21705787)

> It was a problem only Apple was really poised to handle thanks to its vertical integration. The rest of the industry was stuck in the chicken and egg situation where the chip builders didn't own the software stack--the people doing the software were in different companies.

Isn't open source supposed to solve for this? What was stopping them from updating the OS along with their hardware? The only reasons I can think of are unkind enough that I'll not list them, but I'd love to hear if there's a good reason I missed.

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Re:A7: Apple's custom 64-bit silicon embarrassed the industry by wmf on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @03:40PM (#21706662)

Perhaps there could be an alternate history where Android is collaboratively developed by phone vendors, but in practice Google does almost all the work and phone vendors port it and add some proprietary customization. Because of that same dynamic, no one phone or SoC vendor could have afforded to unilaterally add ARM64 support to Android.

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