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Re:Apple M1 foreshadows Rise of RISC-V by macintux on Sunday December 20, 2020 @11:18AM (#25487257)
> The technology isn't exclusive to Apple, but they are the only company which pushes it, even if it sometimes means quite odd display resolutions.

Apple's focus and commitment can be a pain to users who want something different, but overall it's a huge strategic advantage.

Software developers are building their apps for M1 because they know beyond a shadow of a doubt that Apple isn't going to keep Intel around any longer than they have to, whereas Microsoft had and will continue to have a hard time persuading anyone to adopt ARM Windows because the opposite is true.

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Re:Apple M1 foreshadows Rise of RISC-V by AtlasBarfed on Sunday December 20, 2020 @11:39PM (#25492180)
That would imply split-brain development. Yes I agree that devs will support M1 out of necessity in supporting a minority market share OS that will expand from M1's apparent superiority....

But Wintel will own business desktops for probably a decade, unfortunately.

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Re:Apple M1 foreshadows Rise of RISC-V by abcxjeb284 on Monday December 21, 2020 @03:43AM (#25493187)
> But Wintel will own business desktops for probably a decade, unfortunately.

Do you see this as being different from what was going on pre-M1?

Aside from shared math libraries, seems like most stuff required cross compilation just to work - I’m not clear that M1 adds more work on top of that.

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