What advantage? I'm always a bit shocked to see people say this without qualifying it at all.

On the contrary, Apple has to do a lot of greenfield work by refusing standards like UEFI, Vulkan and normal filesystems. They end up reinventing the wheel just to support the same featureset that Qualcomm, Nvidia, AMD and Intel all generally planned for.

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lunar_rover 18 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Advantage of commitment and integration. Apple doesn't need to worry about critical vendors not cooperating because sticking with x86 is less risky.

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wmf 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Is it more work to support a completely proprietary boot path or three different "standard" boot paths?

	▲	bigyabai an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Hint: you would know the answer if you are familiar with the Windows, Linux and OSX boot process.