Intel Expecting Apple to Transition to Custom ARM-Based Chips Starting in 2020

[firewood]

#3 is nonsense - 99% of the computer-buying population doesn’t care about virtual machine stacks

#3 is questionable, as the general computer using populous is very often doing something connected to a service in the "cloud" that's running inside a VM (or similar) stack.

 

[LeeW]

Apple wants developers to be able to create one app that will work on iPhones, iPads, and Macs.

But still find a way to charge for them on each device.

 

[cmaier]

#3 is questionable, as the general computer using populous is very often doing something connected to a service in the "cloud" that's running inside a VM (or similar) stack.

So you think that when someone uses google or iCloud or whatnot they think "gee, i really care about a VM stack?"

And do their machines need to support VM stacks in order to access those things?

No and no.

 

[theluggage]

#3 Compatibility especially with network and virtual machine stacks are becoming so much more important. Going ARM will relegate Apple to just a "toy" and nothing more.

They've announced that it is going to have virtualisation support and that Docker (for a start) will run.

Linux is already far in advance of either Windows or MacOS on ARM and most of the major server-side applications already build for ARM64. Most server-side development work is CPU independent anyway. For Docker, you just need to build ARM versions of the binary images you use (if they're not already published) from source - and the Docker equivalent of "universal binaries" is already a thing: https://www.docker.com/blog/multi-arch-build-and-images-the-simple-way/ - and with all the interest in ARM servers at the moment, it's something that developers need to get into anyway.

...meanwhile, if you really must virtualise x86, for server-side development purposes, you're probably not going to notice if your virtual stack is running under emulation.

Or, you can just spin up a VM - of whatever architecture that you need - and make an exact clone of your production server to work on, with a nice fat pipe to the interwebs (where most of your source material probably lives) .

(If you're hosting production servers or doing stress-testing on Mac hardware - when Apple don't make any server hardware - then you're already holding it wrong).

 

[chucker23n1]

#3 is questionable, as the general computer using populous is very often doing something connected to a service in the "cloud" that's running inside a VM (or similar) stack.

So? They're also connected to power and presumably have running water, but the way that infrastructure is implemented doesn't directly concern them either.