Apple is said to be moving to Arm-based chips in an effort to make Macs, iPhones, and iPads work together and run the same apps.
Why on Earth would you WANT them to run the same apps? The iPad and iPhones are jokes compared to a Mac in capability. Macs are vastly more powerful through the operating system and not limited to Apple only stores (although Apple sure seems to keep heading to them having a monopoly level CONTROL on Mac apps the way they do with iOS apps).
Apple has also denied for years that they want to merge the platforms. Few have believed them, but they refuse to even admit that a touchscreen feature in the MacOS could be useful.... (refusal to admit design errors is a BAD sign on any platform and Apple has had this in spades over the years).
The bottom line is moving away from Intel (to anything other than AMD which is running circles around Intel right now) is a STUPID decision. Period. No arguments, please. Believe any horse manure you want fanboyzs, but the simple FACT is that Intel compatibility has been a huge boon for the Mac over the years, not only letting it run Windows for those that need it but making it simpler for high-end software makers to make Mac versions a lot easier and thus a lot more LIKELY to have Mac versions in the first place. This will absolutely 100% relegate the Mac to the DUST BIN in the back of the store. NO SOFTWARE = NO NEED FOR A MAC. Get a phone if you want iOS garbage.
In short, it will be the
death of Macs. They will be akin to Chromebooks. No one wants or needs them. Absolute GARBAGE. How many really want to go back to the days of PowerPC? Look at the way they just rotted away while Intel ran circles around them. You think Apple is going to stay ahead of Intel and AMD forever? You're DELUSIONAL if you believe that. That's their specialty while Apple tries to do EVERYTHING.
Look at how Apple has ignored the Mac for years on end for refreshes of the Mac Mini and Mac Pro. The TRUTH is Apple doesn't give a DAMN about the Mac. They make very little from it compared to iPhones and this will only lead to an even smaller market share! NO ONE (but fanboyz) want a full blown computer that has NO SOFTWARE. Killing Intel off will mean EXACTLY that as there is not a big enough market share to bother with most software packages and making 10x harder to make a Mac version will do NOTHING to improve that. It will only get worse. If there's some emulator layer, there goes ANY processor speed advantage right out the flipping window making it POINTLESS once again.
Look at how Apple killed most prior market game compatibility with the 32-bit excising. Who wants a Mac now? You have to install Windows just to play 90% of your Steam games because of Apple
ASININE decision.
Again, I know you fanboyz want to argue that, but I've seen your moot arguments before and they amount to a waste of time as you lack 100% objectivity on the matter.
I've really liked the Mac over the years and the operating system ran circles around Windows in most areas (other than GPU support) for ages, but Windows 10 has caught up in most areas and even the likelihood of not getting Malware has decreased on the Mac below Windows level for the first time (however inconsequential most of it is). That is because Apple puts their resources on the iPhone (and I don't mean better features, but more SLOW features so you have to keep buying newer hardware to just run a web browser at a decent speed even).
Frankly, I've grown tired of Apple's GREED. Microsoft used to be the worst offender on the playground and bullied everyone around to push their OS to almost Monopoly status. Now Apple's doing everything in its power to play everyone it can from excuses why they
cannot (more like will not) move off Lightning to USB3c to creating their own custom GPU libraries (Metal) to now wanting to move the CPU off to something they can control with an IRON GRIP.
FRACK Apple. Steve Jobs would be rolling over in his grave now if he knew how Tim Cook has taken innovation and giving people the tools to be creative and turned it into a corporate juggernaut that is driven purely by profits and control.
Apple has BECOME the new Microsoft except they leverage software to sell hardware instead of the other way around. Meanwhile Microsoft has oddly become a team player, even supporting Linux in areas, something the wouldn't have touched with a 100 foot pole twenty years ago. I'm severely disappointed in what Apple has become.
(Yeah I know the fanboy reply is along the lines of not letting the door hit me on the way out; I have a reply for you guys in mind, but I'll save it since I'm the better person). Enjoy your Apple Mac TOYS because that's all they will be in the future if this rumor is true.
