Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Replacing Intel
&gt; &quot;A decision to go with ARM technology in computers might lend it credibility where it has failed to gain a foothold so far.&quot;<p>&gt; &quot;Apple is working on a new software platform, internally dubbed Marzipan, for release as early as this year that would allow users to run iPhone and iPad apps on Macs&quot;<p>Two things here:<p>1) I&#x27;m OK with breaking the Intel near-monopoly on x86. I&#x27;m not OK with moving to a walled garden where Apple forces you to publish apps through their App Store with a paid dev account, etc. just for the privilege of users on their platform. ARM doesn&#x27;t <i>necessarily</i> mean this, but it <i>is</i> a  different CPU arch. When Apple transitioned to Intel&#x2F;x86 from PowerPC, Intel processors were performant enough compared to PowerPC processors to provide a pleasant emulated PowerPC environment for applications build for PowerPC. I don&#x27;t think that a switch to ARM would provide this benefit, and afaik Intel&#x27;s mobile offerings aren&#x27;t that far off from ARM efficiency. So what&#x27;s the benefit? Just vertical integration, I guess? Escaping Intel&#x27;s backdoors and high prices?<p>2) iOS apps on OS X. Why? Does anybody want this? The way I see it, web apps are perfectly adequate for the desktop environment when it comes to stuff like checking my bank account or browsing Hacker News. I don&#x27;t want to deal with a desktop app to do any of the stuff I can currently do via a browser. Is there actually a use case?<p>3) Given the hellscape of bugs currently present in iOS&#x2F;macOS, does anybody have faith that Apple is going to be able to navigate a rewrite of macOS on this scale? It sounds like the sort of thing that requires a lot of talent and a lot of focus. Apple has the capital for this, but not the environment, imo.<p>Seems to me like this could be the nail in the coffin for Macbooks that&#x27;s been pending since the merger of the macOS&#x2F;iOS teams and the introduction of the controversial TouchBar&#x2F;USB-C Pro.