Intel chose and stuck with backcompat as a strategy. They could, tomorrow, split their designs into legacy hardware and modern hardware. They didn’t, but Apple has done breaking generational change many times.

Apple also has a particular advantage in owning the os and having the ability to force independent developers to upgrade their software, which make incompatible updates (including perf optimizations) possible.

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spixy 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

Intel also wanted to break backcompat and start fresh with Itanium but it failed.

	▲	shermantanktop 6 days ago \| parent [-]
		So they abandoned it. Meanwhile Apple has powered through that problem how many times? The price of Apple’s approach is that 3p developers have to dance to Apple’s tune. And that’s a tough road, as evidenced by the small set of really successful companies which have bet the farm on Apple.

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