ElCapitan

Some people here have the same type of reaction the Chinese had with the COVID-19 outbreak; ban, block, suppress and eradicate any criticism or discussion of missing functionality, performance or interoperability experienced for the holy Apple products. 

Fact is, Apple have largely forgotten there is something called Enterprise or even small business out there, and excluded them from their testing and use cases. Unless it fits precisely in their shrinking and increasingly locked down ecosystem, shut it or cut it out. 

godofbiscuits said:

ElCapitan said:

There is large number of open-source libraries in use, and both closed source and open source applications built on these running on macOS where it is highly unlikely they will ever be ported to ARM. Many of these run on the current macOS by a shoe-string only by feature of running on Intel, as the port is relative untrivial compared to a port to ARM.

You're missing the crucial aspect of Open Source software:  the source code is ...open.

The ones that are needed will come along.   As needed.   

Just because it is open does not mean it will port easily to another processor architecture. So I am not missing anything. 

There is large number of open-source libraries in use, and both closed source and open source applications built on these running on macOS where it is highly unlikely they will ever be ported to ARM. Many of these run on the current macOS by a shoe-string only by feature of running on Intel, as the port is relative untrivial compared to a port to ARM.

Apple heard pretty much the same sucking sound Apple customers hear from their wallet whenever they configure their systems with a reasonable amount of storage.

Mike Wuerthele said:

Counterpoint: The 21.5 almost never goes on sale. The next model up is nearly always sale-priced at the same price as the base 21.5, and it has been cheaper.

Outside the US you shall be hard pressed to find any Macs on sale at all.