Finally a company has the guts to move us from the straitjacket of x86. I hope this is just the beginning of much needed innovation in CPU architecture. Due to the MS/Intel duopoly we had to suffer x86 for decades with few real options.
For some values of large?
>Apple now sells more watches than the entire Swiss watch industry
https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/5/21125565/apple-watch-sales...
Of course the expectation was that the Apple Watch should be just as popular as the iPhone and transcend the watch industry completely. Wearables would be the next utterly indispensable technology, maybe even threatening the phone itself. In comparison, 'merely' dominating the existing watch industry and gobbling large chunks of the fitness tracker market seems underwhelming.
I was and still am. As I said, most people I know don't wear a watch, myself included. It was the same in 2014 and 2015.
Apple's watch was their usual polished refinement of existing, mainly Chinese, SIM-equipped smartwatch designs. They didn't invent a market segment out of a vacuum.
The most significant product produced since Jobs passing is the continuous focus on developing technology in the open that can ultimately be applied to groundbreaking products.
The M1 is the natural evolution of the A series processors and the software development tools Apple has been working on in the open for years.
The next major mobile product from Apple is the natural evolution of the micronization of hardware systems seen on the Apple Watch, tied together with secure and private storage of personal data.
Like iPhone and iPad, Apple Watch is a great product in of itself. But the true product of Apple has been focused iterative delivery.
... Excepted that this is not a product, be any definition ever.
Having fun with writing CLI apps and daemons for the watch?
Plus POSIX support in IoT like devices exists since ages.
Well, maybe... “ On Friday, September 1, 2017, after a round of layoffs that started in Oracle Labs in November 2016, Oracle terminated SPARC design after the completion of the M8. Much of the processor core development group in Austin, Texas, was dismissed, as were the teams in Santa Clara, California, and Burlington, Massachusetts.[4][5] SPARC development continues with Fujitsu returning to the role of leading provider of SPARC servers, with a new CPU due in the 2020 time frame.”
It’s not like System76 is going to be able to buy M1s (dang sounds like a weapon when you put it that way ) and Ryzen might not compete with near term successors to M1.