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What a winning pitch to developers. Spend $900 of your own money ($400 more than the Apple Transition Kit, which itself was then fully refunded) to build ARM-native apps; for a <1% market after a disastrous launch with the Recall and Copilot controversies.

And then what? Confuse your customers by asking users to pick x64 or ARM? You'll pay more in customer service costs helping confused customers, and from lost customers who downloaded the ARM version for their x64 PC and wrote off your software as dysfunctional (or, heaven forbid, they see the notice from Windows saying this software is not compatible with your device), than you'll ever gain from native ARM.

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At least for $900 you get to keep this one? The Apple DTK had to be given back after 6 months with your consolation prize (after some kvetching too) being a coupon to buy something in the Apple Store.

Microsoft expects users to get apps from their store which I imagine will choose the correct binary automatically.

Well, that's even worse. Pay $900 and then be forced to redirect your users to the Microsoft Store so they aren't confused, where they'll be forced to see other competing software and/or sign in with a Microsoft Account, in order to cater to a <1% market.

What a garbage pitch.

> or sign in with a Microsoft Account

Most folks are already signed in with a Microsoft Account, thanks to years intensifying setup shenanigans. It's very hard to create a local-only user on initial boot.

So I had to do a fresh install yesterday, it works like this now, you need to shift+F10 as soon as the install start and disable the wifi

netsh interface set interface "Wi-Fi" disable

Then reboot, then when the screen comes that asks you to select a WiFi network but the list is empty you need to bring cmd.exe again with shift+F10 and type OOBE\BYPASSNRO and then it will automatically reboot and have a new screen that has a button made of only text that doesn't look clickable that you can click to skip and it will let you set up a local account.

“But the plans were on display…”

“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”

“That’s the display department.”

“With a flashlight.”

“Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”

“So had the stairs.”

“But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”

“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”

― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

… except for all the people who upgraded from Windows 10, which gets a free grandfathered in local account during setup.

More than 1% of your users will come from that background.

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