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That's basically what Microsoft did with ARM on Windows and I'm sure Apple will take advantage of this opportunity.

The first time (Windows RT), yes, and it was a complete market failure. The new Windows on Arm is not like this.

And it didn’t help that the Windows Store back then was a store for UWP/Metro apps.

It also took a long time for Microsoft to actually tackle the issues that UWP/Metro and WinUI/XAML faced. It took so long, it doesn’t even matter anymore and even Microsoft has moved on. But there’s quite a bit of hypocrisy, with Microsoft telling others to use WinUI while not using it everywhere themselves while refusing to update the styles of other design frameworks.

People have been making this claim for the last ten years, it hasn't happened yet.

Their pro/developers (influence) are too important to apple to do that.

Don't worry, they'll be able to 'unlock' the OS for an exorbitant price via an Apple Pay purchase. :)