[masklinn]

> Here is a conspiracy theory I've got, and I think this article and Apple releasing the app store for mac backs it up: Apple is going to drop Intel chips in the next 3 years.

With all the Intel/NVidia crap going on, that's pretty likely. But not to a different architecture.

> All of this fighting between Intel and Nvidia is really only hurting customers; namely Apple. So what can Apple do? Create an app store that makes devs standardize on an API and shift the underlying arch. An arch that 67% of their product sales are using.

Uh no, that's not going to work unless they mandate that everything on the MacStore be UB x86/ARM, in which case you'll see the transition coming from a solar system away. Furthermore ARM chips simply don't have the oomph to drive big systems right now, you can put as many Cortex-A9 cores as you want on a chip, you won't be building something that can rival the current 12-core mac pro.