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harshitaneja ◴[] No.25065738[source]
All those thinking of buying the new MBA, are you not concerned about availability of applications? Not all x86 applications will have an ARM alternative, yet.
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1. tambourine_man ◴[] No.25065792[source]
Nope. This transition will be fast. Not like PPC -> Intel at all.

Everyone is on Xcode these days and using much higher level frameworks. Adobe and Microsoft already announced early 2021 availability of native binaries.

Besides, Rosetta 2 is even more impressive than the original was. I’m betting it will be a breeze. 6 months in and almost everything will be native.