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A comment on Apple's 15% Deflection Tactic. Parent comment

Re:Apple's 15% Deflection Tactic by naravara on Thursday November 19, 2020 @08:06AM (#25149054)
Have they announced that it’s temporary or is this an assumption? Obviously it goes away eventually, but going away in year 3 of a transition is a different beast than going away in year 10.
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Re:Apple's 15% Deflection Tactic by dcchambers on Thursday November 19, 2020 @09:14AM (#25149629)
My personal thought - there's a hell of a lot more software written for x86 Mac than there ever was for PowerPC Macs. It would make sense to provide the transational layer for a longer amount of time.

That said, Apple has never been shy about aggressive transitions.

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Re:Apple's 15% Deflection Tactic by naravara on Friday November 20, 2020 @09:46AM (#25160884)
Yeah I have the same thought. On the other hand, SaaS and Electron were not really things back then. It's possible that if enough heavy workloads go into the cloud and basic ones just turn into wrapped web apps the actual underlying instruction set becomes irrelevant much faster.
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