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		alwillis on Dec 14, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ARM MacBook vs. Intel MacBook: A SIMD Benchmark It will only get worse; Apple has little incentive to support general computing over a walled garden where they get a cut of every software purchase. About 92% of all iOS apps on the App Store are free; pretty sure the numbers for macOS are similar: https://www.statista.com/statistics/263797/number-of-applica...

dleslie on Dec 14, 2020 [–]

Free-as-in-beer is not the sort of free that concerns me. Moreover, publishing free-beer apps isn't free.

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