>>51045001>You mean those applications that are written in portable programming languages.>HURR DURR IT'S SO SIMPLE EVEN A CHILD CAN DO IT* If Apple switches but Microsoft does not then your Windows VM goes to shit.
* Same thing for running many Linux distros in a VM on a Mac.
* Apps that are not currently profitable/supported will not be recompiled.
* Apps often have optimizations that become useless on another ISA.
* You can repeat the world "portable" all you want, when a language targets more then one ISA there are often bugs unique to a specific ISA. The people using the minority ISA get fucked in terms of the speed with which bugs are identified and fixed.
There is a reason why Apple compiled every version of OS X for Intel from day one even though they weren't selling it until years later. They did not want to lose the ability to target x86. "Ability" is more then a compiler check box. It's code, it's experience, it's first hand knowledge.
