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With 100% control of the stack and an insanely good emulator in Rosetta.

Qualcomm's migration would be much easier than Apple's.

Most of the Android ecosystem already runs on a VM, Dalvik or whatever it's called now. I'm sure Android RISC-V already runs somewhere and I don't see why it would run any worse than on ARM as long as CPUs have equal horsepower.

NDK exists.

The companies with large relevant apps running on the NDK are well staffed and funded enough to recompile.

it's not about that, it's about running the apps whose makers are out of business or just find it easier to tell their customers to buy different phones

It's not about whether they can, it's whether they will. History has proven that well-resourced teams don't like doing this very much and will drag their feet if given the chance.

Yeah, but Qualcomm doesn’t control Android or any of the phone makers. It’s hard for large corps to achieve the internal coordination necessary for a successful ISA change (something literally only Apple has ever accomplished), but trying to coordinate with multiple other large corps? Seems insane. You’re betting your future on the fact that none of the careerists at Google or Samsung get cold feet and decide to just stick with what works.

Wouldn’t coordination to change ISA between multiple companies receive heavy scrutiny in the Lina Khan era?

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