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Every action has an opposite reaction. Thanks to Apple's refusal to cede even a little bit of central control over their ecosystem, to enable decentralized innovation, members of their star silicon design team departed to start afresh with Nuvia.

Now we have Windows Arm PCs with UEFI and upstream Linux support, "close enough" to Apple Silicon perf/watt. PC OEM price competition and enterprise volume buys will yield affordable Arm laptops in a few years. Framework has proven that laptops can be modular. Did they inspire Lenovo to make a more repairable Thinkpad? If Framework releases a modular Arm laptop based on Qualcomm/Mediatek/Nvidia, watch out.

On the software front, the sold-out "Local First" conference recently wrapped in Berlin, https://www.localfirstconf.com/. If HTTP can be extended to support synchronization, it could dramatically lower the cost of cooperative infrastructure, including offline (think Cuba sneakernet) sync, https://stateb.us/what & https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40480016, tearing down big walls of tech and lobbyists.

Some conflicts are won by making them irrelevant.