[bee_rider]

Continue hoping that people who don't want to run MacOS still won't want to?

I don't think they have any chance to match Apple in terms of efficiency while buying third party chips. The advantage comes from controlling the whole stack I think. Apple knows exactly what accelerators will be available for each generation, and their communication between hardware and software folks is presumably much tighter.

Is the Wintel laptop/Macbook gap even that much larger than the Android/iPhone gap?

The market for non-Apple devices is, I think, pretty large.