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zmk5today at 6:01 AM3 repliesview on HN

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…


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supersingtoday at 6:52 AM

Developers 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.

trvztoday at 6:36 AM

They didn’t though. Rosetta 2.

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aa-jvtoday at 7:30 AM

Microsoft can do the same for windows - they need to address the fat bundle solution that Apple came up with, but for Windows, though ..