ARMed mac: not again or for real this time?
There’s one thing I don’t think Gassée, or many of the people predicting an ARM transition for the Mac, are considering: user patience and goodwill, basically political capital with the user base.<p>Apple blew through an incredible amount of it on vanity projects in the 2010s, from the abandoned trashcan Mac Pro to the Touch Bar and butterfly keyboard. They’ve clearly changed course with the 16” MacBook Pro and the 2019 Mac Pro, but they’ve asked a lot of users over the past decade, and this doesn’t quite seem like the right time to ask the entire user base to please be patient once again.<p>In other words, while there’s little question that a switch to ARM is worth the headache <i>for Apple,</i> the critical question is whether Apple can make the case that the switch is worth it <i>for users.</i>