Comment by Wowfunhappy

> they will sell more Apple Music subscriptions if macs keep running macOS.

The type of person who buys an Apple Silicon Mac to run Linux is not going to buy an Apple Silicon Mac to run macOS. However...

> They won't sell more macs if macs can run Linux better.

They would sell some more Macs. Possibly hundreds of thousands more. A drop in the bucket for Apple, but still money—and all they have to do to get it is answer some questions.