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Re:ARM Mac Impact on Intel by neximo64 on Monday June 22, 2020 @04:56AM (#23598396)
This is a typical corporate type view of it. I.e that its least profitable so doesnt matter.

It misses, developers use Macs to build stuff => It's easy to make arm compatible applications => The server (most profitable) domino falls.

I can imagine moving straight to ARM processors if its easy enough to work on and AWS/Google has a deployment option.

The dominos can cascade really fast, particularly in where the new demand for chips comes in, vs the existing one that will just run as it is now.

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Re:ARM Mac Impact on Intel by yangminded on Monday June 22, 2020 @05:19AM (#23598513)
AWS will offer ARM based EC2 instances. If Intel doesn't come up with a drastic turnaround, they are going to be Nokia'd.

https://aws.amazon.com/de/ec2/instance-types/a1/

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Re:ARM Mac Impact on Intel by pjmlp on Monday June 22, 2020 @07:53AM (#23599208)
Indeed, as developer I use Macs to build iOS and macOS stuff.
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Re:ARM Mac Impact on Intel by sheeshkebab on Monday June 22, 2020 @08:20AM (#23599375)
Most developers using Macs don’t touch iOS and macOS dev with 10 foot pole.
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Re:ARM Mac Impact on Intel by pjmlp on Monday June 22, 2020 @09:09AM (#23599752)
Those "developers" shouldn't complain that Apple doesn't care about them, as they should have given their money to a Linux/BSD OEM.

Apparently only UNIX has developers, the rest of us are something else.

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