Comment by deergomoo
18 hours ago
The M1 Macs were a bit different because Apple had already been designing their own CPUs for years, and the machine designs themselves were almost identical to previous iterations with Intel CPUs. The only thing they needed to get right was the software, which they did (and which could have been updated after the fact if they didn’t).
Also the biggest risk with the M1 was really software, that your Intel compiled apps wouldn't work on Apple Silicon
That was solved over time anyway as macOS improved and more developers ported their apps over