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”Apple has proven it can do emulation very successfully - it's already done it twice (M68K->PPC->x86)”

In both cases, from a situation where the platform being emulated was seriously behind, performance-wise.

I don’t think they can maneuver themselves in that position for a x86 ⇒ ARM migration (not even given that they can tweak their ARM variant)

Luckily, I don’t think they would need emulation. Many of their customers don’t run anything else than Apple’s software or popular open source apps that would be migrated within a few days on their Macs.

The others will have to wait until the likes of Adobe have ported their software.



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