For years, Intel sat on its CPU monopoly and now the tide turns against them

Re:For years, Intel sat on its CPU monopoly and now the tide... by tonyedgecombe on Saturday October 03, 2020 @01:56PM (#24673601)

I suspect it’s mostly price that makes it unattractive to users. Worrying about the walled garden is a fringe concern.

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Re:For years, Intel sat on its CPU monopoly and now the tide... by ajuc on Saturday October 03, 2020 @06:06PM (#24675032)

They have almost 0 computer market share in developing markets, nobody knows how to use apple, nobody knows their stack and their programming languages, all the infrastructure is built around windows.

With smartphones it's not such big a problem cause you don't do anything productive on smartphones anyway.

With PC/laptops it's a big disadvantage I don't see changing in a few years just because of small performance advantages, even if the prices weren't an issue.

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Re:For years, Intel sat on its CPU monopoly and now the tide... by amluto on Saturday October 03, 2020 @02:43PM (#24673870)

This depends on the use case. For phones and consumer applications, the walled garden is often tolerable. But imagine trying to run a cloud service, a FinTech system, a factory, an ERP system, etc in the walled garden.

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Re:For years, Intel sat on its CPU monopoly and now the tide... by _ph_ on Saturday October 03, 2020 @05:55PM (#24674971)

The Mac isn't a walled garden, why should servers with Apple Silicon be?

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Re:For years, Intel sat on its CPU monopoly and now the tide... by Dahoon on Saturday October 03, 2020 @04:49PM (#24674567)

Not as long as Windows is not a default OS.

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