That was way too much to read. Apple succeeded with iPhone chips because of huge first mover advantage. Computers and laptops have existed for many decades. Apple is taking on the entire desktop/laptop semis industry. They are making their marketing about the chip now instead of the product. Seems strange. They are going to keep falling further behind because they do not have the ability to focus solely on the chip. The chip is beholden to the product and vice versa. PowerPC was faster than x86 for a long time. It couldn't keep up. We'll see. It's very different now. You don't have to build a fab to make a chip anymore. I don't see the Mac line flourishing for power users at all going forward. You can't even do CUDA stuff on a Mac anymore. You're supposed to send that off to the cloud. The computer that's twice as expensive can do half as much. For now it's working very well. Time will tell. Ubuntu Desktop has never been this good and it's getting better every new version. 23.10 just came out. I used to be on mac now why bother.