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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by ogre_codes on Monday June 22, 2020 @03:26PM (#23604993)
> Yeah, the fact that they didn't show off Windows, but instead Debian of all things, was very telling.

I suspect developers running VMs with Linux on them is far more common than developers running Windows VMs. Likely by an order of magnitude. Web developers want Linux VMs, Windows developer have Windows laptops.

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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by monocasa on Monday June 22, 2020 @03:30PM (#23605062)
You'd be surprised. It was the only option for those writing native apps to have a platform that could legally run all of your tooling if you shipped Mac/Windows/Linux.
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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by ogre_codes on Monday June 22, 2020 @03:42PM (#23605296)
> It was the only option for those writing native apps to have a platform that could legally run all of your tooling if you shipped Mac/Windows/Linux.

Sure, but the number of people writing cross platform apps is a small fraction of the number of web developers out there.

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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by monocasa on Monday June 22, 2020 @03:47PM (#23605398)
But given the amount of time they talked about how large a part native apps play into the transitions, an extremely strategically important segment for them.

Additionally, there's the Android/iOS crowd in the same boat, where emulation of non x86 in Android dev is pretty limited (but I can see that being rectified with the newer virtualization extensions).

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