alt Hacker NewsSure, but to what extent?
Enterprise ARM servers are still a niche product, and so are the ARM developer machines running Linux or Windows. Until this significantly changes, Apple will have to provide good x86 interop - or lose the developer market entirely.
Forcing people towards Apple silicon is of course an attractive approach when targeting the large portion of the market using their MacBooks as Facebook browsing machines, but (especially with the new MacBook Neo) what's going to happen when a large portion of the market for high-end MBPs disappears because it turned from the default no-brainer into a liability?
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solarkraft • today at 6:23 AM
That’s a joke right? I’ve been developing software deployed on x86 servers on ARM Macs ever since they were released.
> Until this significantly changes, Apple will have to provide good x86 interop - or lose the developer market entirely.
I'm very, very skeptical of this analysis. Certainly "entirely" is hyperbole.