The King of CPU Architecture Migrations
I’m no evangelist, but it doesn’t take a fanboy to acknowledge that Apple is an impressive company.
They invented the most successful product in the history of capitalism, and subsequently became the first business to hit a $1T market cap. Through hit products like the iPod, unparalleled branding, and the reality distortion field of Steve Jobs, they even managed to make tech cool.
Behind this impressive execution is a borderline-obsessive hardware optimisation: Since the Mac was released in 1984, Apple has migrated its CPU architecture three times.
This is no easy feat.
Every time a computer company announces a CPU architecture migration, there is widespread skepticism about whether the business can survive its entire software…