Comment by utopiah
7 hours ago
What makes Apple valuable is precisely its full vertical integration. Nobody else does it at that scale except maybe Sony for consoles and Microsoft but both don't have the same usage coverage and thus integration.
It wouldn't be economically rational for Apple to bring down its own moat.
Apple isn't Sony. They make an arm and a leg on their hardware.
When they switched to x86, it didn't take long for them to release Boot Camp, so they could take Windows users' money, too.
Windows dual boot meant millions of potential switchers, if not for anything else, as a list item to tell them "you could still dual boot".
Asahi-on-Mac would bring in irrelevant numbers for a company of Apple's size.
They also make an arm and a leg on services, which is why its not in their interest to make it so you cant use them.
It's not like users will just stop using the services. Rather Linux users will start considering MacBook as a potential laptop to buy.
How could that possibly disrupt their Software/Services infra?
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People whom want Linux on Macs obviously already don't want to be put into Apple's ecosystem.