Because they're a more closed ecosystem that encompasses much more of the stack. Intel is a small part of the whole stack and they have a proper competitor. Smaller slice of the stack + more competition = less tech dominance.

The fact that M1/M2 can run something is almost irrelevant. It can because Apple allows you to run it and can stop that at any moment. It wouldn't be the first time they would decide something like that out of the blue.

> The fact that M1/M2 can run something is almost irrelevant. It can because Apple allows you to run it and can stop that at any moment.

The lead Asahi Linux developer has addressed this point.

>Okay, it's been over a year, and it's time to end the nonsense speculation.

I have heard from several Apple employees that:

Apple explicitly engineered 3rd party OS support in, and it is a hard policy requirement that it continue to work.

https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1554395176025849856

M1/M2 can boot unsigned code and don't have flashable firmware, so I'm not sure it's actually possible to update it in a way it stops booting Linux.