Apple M1 isn't in a proprietary walled garden, it's a general purpose computer l...

oblio · on Nov 30, 2021

This:

> Apple M1 isn't in a proprietary walled garden, it's a general purpose computer like any good old x86 laptop.

is functionally contradicted by this:

> It's not designed with industry standards in mind and doesn't have any official documentation on internals

And this:

> but it's not locked down in any way, and reverse engineering is solving the documentation problem already.

only improves things partially.

> (Also Qualcomm Snapdragon is a far more cursed platform internally.)

The TL;DR would be more that ARM in practice and SoCs for sure, suck. They're functionally their own little islands, compared to the PC.