However I'm doubtful that the PC market will move to a closed system similar to Apple's. So whoever comes in with ARM better be prepared for lots of competitions and low margins in a cutthroat environment. That's not a very attractive market proposition, especially since the x86 makers won't just take this lying down.
I think we'll be in a weird place soon.
Apple will be doing Apple things and increasing its market share but never taking over (maybe it will reach 20-25%? who knows).
Many server environments will switch to ARM, especially the big cloud providers that can make their own chips.
Qualcomm will push some more desktop class SOCs but I doubt they'll reach Apple's performance levels so they risk having their lunch eaten, especially by AMD.
So it's possible that the PC desktop/laptop market might be "stuck" with x86 for many more decades.
There is also a scenario where Intel or AMD come up with some brilliant designs and catch up completely or well enough to Apple in which case this will all have been a tempest in a teacup.
However I'm doubtful that the PC market will move to a closed system similar to Apple's. So whoever comes in with ARM better be prepared for lots of competitions and low margins in a cutthroat environment. That's not a very attractive market proposition, especially since the x86 makers won't just take this lying down.
I think we'll be in a weird place soon.
Apple will be doing Apple things and increasing its market share but never taking over (maybe it will reach 20-25%? who knows).
Many server environments will switch to ARM, especially the big cloud providers that can make their own chips.
Qualcomm will push some more desktop class SOCs but I doubt they'll reach Apple's performance levels so they risk having their lunch eaten, especially by AMD.
So it's possible that the PC desktop/laptop market might be "stuck" with x86 for many more decades.
There is also a scenario where Intel or AMD come up with some brilliant designs and catch up completely or well enough to Apple in which case this will all have been a tempest in a teacup.