By: James (no.delete@this.thanks.invalid), June 24, 2020 7:15 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
Anne O. Nymous (not.delete@this.real.address) on June 24, 2020 4:41 am wrote:
> I for one consider being willing to change ISA/platform not a sign of weakness or a correction
> of an earlier error, but simply as good management, nobodies crystal ball actually works that well,
> and what might have been even an absolute optimal strategy/decision in the past might turn out
> to be a dead end in the near future. So flexibility and change per se are not bad things.
I note that no-one is saying that if ARM is the right answer now, ARM must have been the right answer in 2006, and Apple should have ported to ARM instead of Intel back then.
> I for one consider being willing to change ISA/platform not a sign of weakness or a correction
> of an earlier error, but simply as good management, nobodies crystal ball actually works that well,
> and what might have been even an absolute optimal strategy/decision in the past might turn out
> to be a dead end in the near future. So flexibility and change per se are not bad things.
I note that no-one is saying that if ARM is the right answer now, ARM must have been the right answer in 2006, and Apple should have ported to ARM instead of Intel back then.
