Apple Silicon is the future or will be a flop?

[Kreesher]

Last WWDC, Apple is announcing the transition from intel to apple silicon in a period of 2 years. Wanted to open the topic here to check what are the expectations and thoughts about the community about this topic.

Are you excited about the news and think it will be the future or just a flop and in the end intel will continue big and strong?

Will you buy one when it comes out or wait for future iterations and see if it's a good idea when the arm based computers are cemented out?

I think this is the future and it will change the laptop and desktop industry, faster and less power-hungry with a bigger battery life ahead of us in a thin format. But let me know your thoughts about this

 

[Genesis]

I don't trust Apple. I'm sure what will happen is that the updates of Apple OS to work with Apple silicon will cause the same thing with the older models of Apple as had happened before. The models predating the new Apple silicon iphones won't have enough battery power to work with newly updated Apple OS. Again, Apple is probably going to force users to upgrade to the latest more expensive models with Apple silicon. So that means iphone is not affordable for me. I also don't trust that Apple is going to look after its older models at the expense of latest hardware and OS changes to make the hardware work optimally.

But yes, if you're wealthy and can afford the latest Apple models, then I'm sure Apple silicon is going to allow Apple do improve its iphone in competition with Android phones in the same league. Apple may be able to bring out some more exciting features and apps that would not have been possible previously. And maybe get some of your sophisticated android users to go after apps that may not be possible with Android. Although I guess Samsung for sure and all its Android developers will be able to follow soon.

 

[Kreesher]

Apple is probably going to force users to upgrade to the latest more expensive models with Apple silicon. So that means iphone is not affordable for me.

For some reason, I think Apple is changing that... Even if they made the first move to have the iphone X crazy price of $1000 for a phone. They also provide now iphone SE with A13 the latest chip in a lower cost iPhone starting from $400 and even the iphone XR and iphone 11 is packing much more for the price.

So if apple wants to have more people to switch, a good move would be to apply the same tactic. Have a MacBook for every wallet. If you imagine a MacBook air with apple silicon that is able to have a battery for 20 - 24h, run all iphone and ipad apps, smoother and faster than an intel i5 or even i7. For just the same price of and iPad pro that you can edit movies in 4K or the most demanding things, you can add there... You can see that many more people would not only change to that but would make all the industry change and again run after apple and change quickly to ARM.

I am inclined to think that Apple, in the end, more than sells want to make people jump into the ecosystem and brand to lock them from the inside out and offer the best for a bit lower price... even people that wouldn't like the brand would much easier get one.

Another thing that they will finally be able to accomplish is if you have and iphone or ipad...when you are in the MacBook with apple silicon everything is there all the apps you don't even need to check the phone anymore.

The only downfall of this is Bootcamp is not possible anymore only emulate inside with parallels or VMware... killing the Hackintosh and all. So no more playing games on windows in a mac...

I hope Windows now focus a team on doing a totally different OS for ARM and become committed to that so it can also have such an option. Because so far the ARM devices that they tried to have... are not seen as serious even to them. I am very curious to see how the industry will react to that change...