dmcq (dmcq.delete@this.fano.co.uk) on February 27, 2019 4:49 am wrote:
> There is a bit of history you obviously don't know. Apple did not want to buy chips or technology from a rival
> and considered Acorn at that time a rival. They were happy though to be joint partners in founding ARM. Also
> Acorn did not sell ARM chips, VLSI did, and had done so for a number of years before the founding of ARM except
> then it stood for Acorn Risc Machine. It is true there was no recognizable IP model until a couple of years
> after the founding but no competition and being an IP company was built in from the start. Before the founding
> and for a while afterwards there were numerous talks with other companies about what sort of business they
> could make a success of. I'm surprised how helpful companies can be to each other in things like that. Perhaps
> that also contributed to their policy of forming an ecosystem and working with partners.


That's irrelevant to today though, Apple is far larger and ARM doesn't sell PCs like Acorn did. They really were a competitor of Apple's.