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I really like this, but I think the reason Apple Silicon took off was that Apple sort of forced devs to support ARM. Not sure if Microsoft can do the same for W
by zmk5 4mo ago
I really like this, but I think the reason Apple Silicon took off was that Apple sort of forced devs to support ARM. Not sure if Microsoft can do the same for Windows…
- trvz 4mo agoThey didn’t though. Rosetta 2.
- ptole_my 4mo agorosetta is a relatively short term solution. will be supported up to macOS 28
- supersing 4mo agoDevelopers weren’t really “forced” to support ARM. They simply recognized that all future Macs would be ARM, whereas most new PCs would continue to run on x86. So the incentive to adopt ARM was much weaker on the PC side.
- ryukoposting 4mo ago> Developers weren’t really “forced” to support ARM. They simply recognized that all future Macs would be ARM One might call this "forcing"
- aa-jv 4mo agoMicrosoft can do the same for windows - they need to address the fat bundle solution that Apple came up with, but for Windows, though ..