Don’t you think we will see more general computing ARM chips with the M1’s success? Aren’t we approaching a world where your phone, tablet (hopefully eating the laptop…), desktop and server all run more or less the same chip?
What it is about android that allows you to do so is the copyleft license on the linux kernel. Chips can be locked down, and they generally are.
Either way, I was hinting at a possible liberation through the laptop/desktop/server ARM SoC market, which is certainly coming. I think x86 is “over”.
It doesn't prevent anyone from providing linux firmwares, but it takes away the reason they must do so.