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If they market this right, I don’t see big problems.

Many users live mostly in the browser, anyways. Photos, Pages, Numbers and Keynote will be native. If they convince Dropbox and Microsoft to have native apps, support iOS apps better than they do now (that should cover casual gaming), and make it cheaper than the ‘equivalent’ x64 one, I think they would have a product.

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Microsoft already builds ARM Office for the Surface Pro X, and has the only official ARM-based Chromium browser, Edge, as well, so I suspect they'll be well positioned.

There are official ARM ChromeOS devices (and therefore Chromium).

Indeed – Edge is based on the ARM Chromium branch – though oddly enough, you can't get an official Chrome ARM build yet. I'm assuming Apple's push to ARM would make them actually release it. Also just remembered that Visual Studio Code is now building for ARM as well, which is interesting timing...

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