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Re:VMware Fusion for Apple Silicon Public Tech Preview Now A... by rsync on Monday October 04, 2021 @10:54AM (#28747518)
"We get asked regularly about running x86 VMs on M1 Macs."

Sort of like Ford gets asked regularly about driving their cars on interstate highways ?

This is not a fringe feature or some weird corner-case ... this is the reason people buy your product.

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Re:VMware Fusion for Apple Silicon Public Tech Preview Now A... by whydid on Monday October 04, 2021 @03:21PM (#28750899)
Right? Their response comes off a bit arrogant.
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Re:VMware Fusion for Apple Silicon Public Tech Preview Now A... by soneil on Monday October 04, 2021 @07:30PM (#28753721)
Probably a lot less arrogant than it sounds. They probably share a whole lot of tooling between platforms. Emulation just isn’t in their skill set anywhere.

Desktop is a niche for VMware, and Mac a niche within that. It seems pretty straightforward that perhaps this product doesn’t pay for a whole new engineering skill set.

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