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Software and platform lockdown are a lot weaker than they were in the WinTel heyday. It’s a lot easier to go from macOS to Windows to Linux these days. There are many exceptions of course, but I’d wager that market is not as big as you think.


I think OPs point is that this is going to get a lot harder once macbooks become Apple Silicon only


Software has a lot more abstractions these days. Almost no one codes close to the ISA. I don’t think it’s as much of an issue as it was.


Only if ones lives in a POSIX CLI world of Web GUIs.

That is not the market that Apple cares about, nor NeXT did that much, other to gain market share when things were looking dim.


Most of the world uses web apps. Huge and performance sensitive applications like Adobe, Maya, etc mostly already have their own UI rendering engine anyway.

It’s a lot different from the Win32/x86 duopoly situation.

Platforms have been mostly abstracted away.


Most of the world is a bubble.


Care to elaborate? I don’t understand you meant by that.




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