Wonder how many of them they're gunna sell.
I remember way back in the 90's shopping for my first Mac and it was right before the first PowerPC CPUs were to become available in the next Macs.
The vibe in the stores (no Apple Stores back then) was "now isn't a good time to buy a computer".
I heeded to their advice and as it turned out, the salesmen were right—the Power PC chips blew the doors off the old 68040 things.
I wonder if the ARM chips will do the same to Intel's offerings
Oh sure the PowerPC chips benchmarked really well, but 1994-1997 was one of the lowest points in history for Apple quality and reliability. I worked for an Apple dealer back then and things were really tough. Mac computers, especially the 603 based Performas, were junk and some of the Apple branded displays and printers were worse.
But the real problem was software. Early adopters of PowerPC spent their days patiently waiting for emulated applications on an OS that crashed at least three times a day. It took Apple years to get a version of MacOS that ran as well on PowerPC as it did on 680x0 and most software vendors took just as long to release native PPC applications and tools.
But that was the old Apple, a company with complacent leadership that was teetering on the verge of bankruptcy. Since then Apple has proven itself capable of major transitions with only minor growing pains. I expect the move to Apple silicon will be a smooth one.