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Re:M2 MacBook Air scores higher on Windows 11 GeekBench than... by karamanolev on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @05:58PM (#32572129)
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.

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Re:M2 MacBook Air scores higher on Windows 11 GeekBench than... by GeekyBear on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @11:01PM (#32574498)
> 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

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Re:M2 MacBook Air scores higher on Windows 11 GeekBench than... by astrange on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @07:33PM (#32573018)
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.
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