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You’re right, and it really comes down to the years and years of production buildup and engineering experience that Apple has with its SoCs. It seems almost impossible for other laptop manufacturers, who still rely on sourcing CPUs from Intel and AMD, to be able to compete. Chip design isn’t even an ability that most if not all other laptop companies currently have.

Apple is also uniquely good at smoothly transitioning users to new tech, e.g. the creation and phase-out of Rosetta 2. It’s hard to imagine a switch to Windows ARM would go over well without a large effort like this.