How about when customers with niche use cases like that are sufficient to sustain Intel at its current/similar size?

Not saying I necessarily agree with the top-level comment, but that is hardly a convincing argument against it.

You would dare to run arbitrary code not throughly checked for appropriate content on iOS?!

With more and more transition to cloud platforms this might be a short sleep.

Though I still prefer a local environment for quick iterative development I often can't justify the time to spin up/manage a VM due to how quick I could otherwise do cloud native development in a browser.

You may never be able to run VirtualBox on an iPad Pro but there is a good chance VirtualBox will run on an Apple chip in the near future.

id love to see a "what percent of devices are sold to developers" statistic. youre not their target market.

you can already run VMs on azure or aws and access them with rdp.

A ARM Macbook will, soon. That is what I'm reading from this story.