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Originally Posted by stefcep2
When it became clear that PPC could not match the price/performance of x86 they moved to intel, and then as the hardware point of difference no longer existed, they focused on the OS as their point of difference.
Today with the M chips, its back to hardware and software as their point of difference.
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Apple own HW allow Apple to increase profits (Intel was too greedy) - that's why Apple started all that M ARM development - it will be not surprising if Apple next step will be to ditch ARM (Apple need to pay royalties to ARM) and they start with something like RISC-V... After so many ISA changes they simply don't care... and btw they didn't care also in past - Rosetta was not 100% guarantee to run legacy software owned by people but hey, Apple don't care.
Forgot to add to be not completely OT, Miner in interviews claimed that before his departure from Commodore, Ranger chipset was ready (silicone proven) yet Commodore decided to go for ECS instead Ranger, later AAA seem to be more or less ready yet Commodore decided to go for AGA (AA) chipset - this also can be considered as one of main reasons for Commodore failure - many projects started but commercialized are those very "conservative".
And 'Advanced AMIGA Architecture' nicely shows cost of Commodore product - they had wide margin.