| ▲ | thewebguyd 2 hours ago | |
> Apple will revive Boot Camp for Windows and deem it useful to include Linux this time? If Apple wanted to, they could already do that right now. Windows runs on arm just fine. Heck, windows on Arm in a parallels VM runs better on my macbook pro than it does natively on an x86 laptop. If Apple would make some drivers, even just for Windows, I bet they'd sell more macs. But it would seem Apple either calculated that ecosystem/services lock-in is way more important to them than a potential boost in hardware sales for alternative OSes, or they are really reluctant to make drivers for Apple Silicon available elsewhere out of fear it'll expose some trade secrets, which they didn't have to worry about when they used intel. | ||
| ▲ | Aurornis 6 minutes ago | parent [-] | |
> If Apple would make some drivers, even just for Windows, I bet they'd sell more macs. The incremental bump in sales would be very small. Even when Apple did provide bootcamp drivers to run Windows on old laptops, very few people used it as their daily driver for a Windows computer. I'm sure Apple has a better estimate of the market for people who bought Macs to use with alternative OSes back when they supported it, but they've calculated that it's not worth the effort. | ||