narwhal

chelgrian said:

If that was true then MS would not have created 

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2022/10/24/available-today-windows-dev-kit-2023-aka-project-volterra/
They would also not have ported the full version of Visual Studio to ARM windows.

Since they have done both the evidence is not on your side.

I will admit Microsoft has released several Windows apps to Arm. But realize also that Teams, its newest app for Office, is an Electron/React app. Microsoft isn't writing new native Windows-only apps -- it's writing cross-platform apps, PWAs, .NET Maui. Do you think other companies will start writing to the Windows App SDK and WinUI 3? I don't see why they would -- it's a dead end.

Much of the non-Microsoft apps for Windows are games, and those developers are moving to cross-platform Unity or Unreal Engine. Those games COULD be ported to Windows Arm, but with Qualcomm's current Arm chips, why bother? Gamers won't buy Windows Arm devices until they're faster and cheaper than AMD and Nvidia.

Windows native app development is dead (so nobody will port to Arm), Qualcomm's chips are too slow, Nuvia chips are a moving target, and prices are too high. OTOH, Apple and Mac are well-positioned to increase market share.

Too many cooks -- it's doomed to fail. But I'm guessing the banks are nervous about Apple's and Google's digital wallets someday replacing them. I suppose if Apple and Google add loans and investments to their wallets, brick-and-mortar banks won't have much purpose.

I was part of the small developer class action lawsuit in the US, and am owed several thousand $. Unfortunately the claims administrator in the US is incapable of competently disbursing the funds and has gone unresponsive. Any other devs in a similar situation?

I think the Apple Store employees SHOULD organize, but I take the press releases from the unions with a grain of salt. Very big grain. Also, are employees who join the union ineligible for management positions? That could be a big disincentive to joining the union.