Not much has changed. We are now hearing the praise of Apple Silicon even though in practice it is nowhere near as good as they want you to believe. If you have a workload that will never extend beyond what Apple has planned and are willing to eat the insane markup on options, yes, it is ok for the efficiency. But otherwise, this is a waste of time on an unstable software platform.
I was an Apple user in the PowerPC era, and I remember very well how bad it got. And I have been burned too many times by software deprecation and unnecessary change that make things worse. I am still salty about Aperture that I regularly recommended to friends/clients; iWork got destroyed from an UI standpoint and did not even improve on anything (still perform like shit for big files and documents formatting preservation are even less reliable than Word across versions); Apple Music is so bad that I would rather use Spotify (if I really have to use a Frankenstein web client application, I would rather use the performant one).
I am still an Apple user in a way, got Mac Mini, iPhone, Apple Watch, and previously had an iPad who got stolen but nether bothered to renew (the pricing is ridiculous, the low end has non laminated display that make it annoying to read on, which was my primary activity on it). But considering the strategy that's pretty much the last things I'll have from Apple.
Apple only cares about itself, it is unhealthy to get in a long term relationship with them. Especially as innovation slowdown, stability and longevity are more important than ever.
But I guess we will keep hearing about how awesome Apple Silicon is. I'll wait for open market competitive version thank you very much (provided there is any advantage at all, which I sincerely doubt).
I was an Apple user in the PowerPC era, and I remember very well how bad it got. And I have been burned too many times by software deprecation and unnecessary change that make things worse. I am still salty about Aperture that I regularly recommended to friends/clients; iWork got destroyed from an UI standpoint and did not even improve on anything (still perform like shit for big files and documents formatting preservation are even less reliable than Word across versions); Apple Music is so bad that I would rather use Spotify (if I really have to use a Frankenstein web client application, I would rather use the performant one).
I am still an Apple user in a way, got Mac Mini, iPhone, Apple Watch, and previously had an iPad who got stolen but nether bothered to renew (the pricing is ridiculous, the low end has non laminated display that make it annoying to read on, which was my primary activity on it). But considering the strategy that's pretty much the last things I'll have from Apple. Apple only cares about itself, it is unhealthy to get in a long term relationship with them. Especially as innovation slowdown, stability and longevity are more important than ever.
But I guess we will keep hearing about how awesome Apple Silicon is. I'll wait for open market competitive version thank you very much (provided there is any advantage at all, which I sincerely doubt).