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Re:Wat [video] (2012) by jmillikin on Thursday March 30, 2023 @12:39AM (#35368055) 

  > It seems clear that X86 has won
Mobile has a large and growing lead over desktop[0] for web traffic, and every popular mobile device released for the past ~decade has run on ARM.

[0] https://techjury.net/blog/mobile-vs-desktop-usage/

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Re:Wat [video] (2012) by bb88 on Thursday March 30, 2023 @12:41AM (#35368069)
Arm was only %8 of the CPU market in 2021.

https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/12/apple_arm_m1_intel_x8...

I'm still waiting for those arm desktops that run Windows...

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Re:Wat [video] (2012) by jmillikin on Thursday March 30, 2023 @12:53AM (#35368170)
I'm struggling to phrase a response that would be polite enough for HN, so instead I'll encourage you to re-read both my post and your link more carefully.
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Re:Wat [video] (2012) by nl on Thursday March 30, 2023 @01:13AM (#35368335)
More people use web browsers on mobile than on desktops: https://gs.statcounter.com/platform-market-share/desktop-mob...

Therefore there are more browsers on ARM than there on x86.

> I'm still waiting for those arm desktops that run Windows

This seems irrelevant, but MS is shipping them now: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/11/project-volterra-rev...

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Re:Wat [video] (2012) by quux on Thursday March 30, 2023 @02:47PM (#35377268)
Hello from a desktop ARM machine that runs windows!

M1 Mac Mini running Windows 11 in parallels.

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