[zibzab]

This is exactly the kind of risk people warned about.

You cannot do everything in-house and think you can always be better than every other company in the world. One bad year in one department and your competitors will eat your market share.

[poisonborz]

No, this is exactly the opposite. If you lock in your users in an ecosystem that's compatible with exactly nothing outside, they will happily eat your marginal updates for years. Even if problems would endure, Apple can plan calmly, as the switch would be much more costly for its customers.

[rbanffy]

I'd say it's too soon to call the updates marginal. This is a process improvement with some, small, architectural improvement. You can't pull an M1-level improvement on every generation.

[pjmlp]

They managed to do that the first time for about 20 years, then had to be rescued.

Now they have enough money to do that more than just 20 years, but nothing lasts forever.

[mycall]

With the cash Apple is holding, I have zero doubts they will be perfectly fine.