> corporate purchased laptops and AWS instances, which are quite different.
They are similar. Particularly because developing on a corporate hardware with an ARM processor is a surefire way to figure out if the software you write will have issues with ARM in AWS.
That's pretty much the entire reason x86 took off in the server market in the first place.
> About corporate laptops, do you have evidence to show that companies are switching to Macbooks from HP/Dell/ThinkPads?
Nope. Mostly just anecdotal. My company offers devs the option of either an x86 machine or a mac.
Lots of companies do that, and I wouldn't call it an x86/ARM choice but rather the same old Windows/Mac choice. For Windows, only x86 makes sense for companies with lots of legacy software, and the only choice for Mac is ARM.
They are similar. Particularly because developing on a corporate hardware with an ARM processor is a surefire way to figure out if the software you write will have issues with ARM in AWS.
That's pretty much the entire reason x86 took off in the server market in the first place.
> About corporate laptops, do you have evidence to show that companies are switching to Macbooks from HP/Dell/ThinkPads?
Nope. Mostly just anecdotal. My company offers devs the option of either an x86 machine or a mac.