Holy crap, man - I read two sentences into your comment before literally hitting reply to say ‘as a long-time Mac and iOS dev this is one of the most logical and undeniable statements I’ve ever heard’.

I read the rest after typing this.

Intel was...it was king.

To be honest - Apple actually got some pretty damn good performance out of the PowerPC chips and architecture - my Quad-Core G5 tower with 16GB RAM is still used for finalization of my music projects, due to its insanely smooth performance - and tbh coming from a very experienced user of modern Macs it still kicks ass.