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by tambourine_man 3001 days ago
>So what's the benefit? Just vertical integration, I guess? Escaping Intel's backdoors and high prices?

Yes, and perhaps better power/performance ratio. Possible iOS binary compatibility as well.

It should be an easier transition than from PPC -> Intel, since at that time, most big apps used CodeWarrior and had to transition to XCode along with the architecture move.