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Re:For years, Intel sat on its CPU monopoly and now the tide... by tambourine_man on Saturday October 03, 2020 @05:57PM (#24674984)
Software and platform lockdown are a lot weaker than they were in the WinTel heyday. It’s a lot easier to go from macOS to Windows to Linux these days. There are many exceptions of course, but I’d wager that market is not as big as you think.
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Re:For years, Intel sat on its CPU monopoly and now the tide... by whoisburbansky on Saturday October 03, 2020 @06:19PM (#24675100)
I think OPs point is that this is going to get a lot harder once macbooks become Apple Silicon only
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Re:For years, Intel sat on its CPU monopoly and now the tide... by tambourine_man on Saturday October 03, 2020 @09:44PM (#24676026)
Software has a lot more abstractions these days. Almost no one codes close to the ISA. I don’t think it’s as much of an issue as it was.
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Re:For years, Intel sat on its CPU monopoly and now the tide... by pjmlp on Sunday October 04, 2020 @02:41AM (#24676958)
Only if ones lives in a POSIX CLI world of Web GUIs.

That is not the market that Apple cares about, nor NeXT did that much, other to gain market share when things were looking dim.

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Re:For years, Intel sat on its CPU monopoly and now the tide... by tambourine_man on Sunday October 04, 2020 @11:13PM (#24684239)
Most of the world uses web apps. Huge and performance sensitive applications like Adobe, Maya, etc mostly already have their own UI rendering engine anyway.

It’s a lot different from the Win32/x86 duopoly situation.

Platforms have been mostly abstracted away.

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Re:For years, Intel sat on its CPU monopoly and now the tide... by pjmlp on Monday October 05, 2020 @02:41AM (#24685150)
Most of the world is a bubble.
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Re:For years, Intel sat on its CPU monopoly and now the tide... by tambourine_man on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @12:19AM (#24694648)
Care to elaborate? I don’t understand you meant by that.
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