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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by AnthonyMouse on Thursday November 12, 2020 @03:16PM (#25074338)
That's not how the long tail works. Any given esoteric piece of software won't be used by very many people, but very many people will use some esoteric piece of software.

You also have the problem with proprietary software that even if a port exists, it's not the version you have an existing license for, and you may not be able to afford a new laptop and all new software at the same time.

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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by greedo on Thursday November 12, 2020 @03:50PM (#25074811)
That's partially correct, and partially wrong. Long tail means that few people will buy/use a particular software package, but that if you have lots of such packages, you can make money. In the case of Apple Silicon, if there's an "esoteric" package, by definition it's only used by a small number of people.
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