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Apple is "preparing to announce" the switch, but haven't we heard these rumors for, well, years now? How much more reliable are these rumors now compared to a couple years ago?

I'm a little surprised to see Bloomberg basically cribbing MacRumors.

EDIT: Instantly downvoted? LOL

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You don’t need to rely on the rumors. Anybody who has seen the trend of Apple’s hardware can see that they are moving in this direction. The iPads have touted “desktop class” CPUs for years.. Macs already have in-house supervisor chips, (the T2 in the MacBook). Apple is a smart behemoth, an expert at vertical integration, who has a lot to benefit by cutting out Intel. They will certainly attempt it. It's only a question of how and when.

MacRumors is the one doing the cribbing this time around, as there are extremely strong supply chain rumors for a new ARM chip that would support a Mac lineup.

I always take these rumours with a pinch of salt. But I don't think that there having been rumours for years discredits them. There were apple tablet rumours for years too, which turned out to be because they were working on a tablet for about 10 years before they released it (they ended up releasing the iPhone first as part of the same project, and I believe that was 7 years in).

When I worked at Apple I ported FileMaker to a Macintosh Tablet computer almost 20 years before the iPad.

Some analysts (including Gurman) have pretty consistently called out 2020 as “the” year for a couple years now: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-02/apple-is-...

'Rumors' like this don't have exact dates like June 22nd.

The rumors were valid a couple years ago, too; any change like this would definitely take years of planning.

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