TheBuccaneerGentleman

Its not so much as your physical location as its your citizenship/address. I am a US citizen who works abroad. I got the email to apply and was approved in less than 3 minutes. I have a US SSN and address but I'm physically in Israel right now.

LordZedd said:

I've been through the 6502-68K, 68K-PPC and PPC-Intel switches. If there is a switch to ARM, I'm out. No bootcamp, no VM, no games at all, no professional apps, no drivers for anything.

Im sure that folks concerned with bootcamp and virtualization will mourn the switch, but those people are in the minority. Working at Apple retail for some years, we almost never had computers come in for repair with a bootcamp partition. Actually, I cant even recall one time. Now that's not definitive proof of anything, merely anecdotal. Even so, I think the majority of Mac users would trade bootcamp for faster performance through an optimized ARM CPU. I also believe the vast majority will trade virtulization for better battery life of an ARM CPU. Regarding drivers, the big manufactures like BlackMagic or others will adapt and release. Again, a tiny handful of Mac users have ever installed a driver on their machine. Adobe will for sure also release their suite and be featured by Tim on stage. Autodesk, Adobe and many other makers of Pro apps have spent years already making iOS (read ARM) versions of their products. It wont be a long time before everyone comes along. It will for sure be a painful switch for some; but just like PPC > Intel; ADB > USB; USB A > USB C; we will adapt. And for large swaths of users all they will see is a super fast Mac with great battery life and a vibrant App store and never notice the difference.