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Why are we hard coupling the hardware to the software? The whole secret of the success of M1 and ARM in servers is that lots of software has long ago stopped being hyper-aware of what hardware it is running on.

What software are we talking about anyways? It's all incredibly vague, but it seems to reach all the way into the Kubernetes sphere. Why would I run this over something I can use on my next job?



It's basically a mini-ec2 in your server room. The software and hardware give you a platform to deploy VMs configured however you want.


> Why are we hard coupling the hardware to the software? The whole secret of the success of M1 and ARM in servers is that lots of software has long ago stopped being hyper-aware of what hardware it is running on.

The software running on M1 is a bespoke fit for it. That's why the performance in macOS on M1 is phenomenal. It was custom made to execute optimally on it.


It's probs cheaper than AWS if you already have on prem infra. AWS has pretty damn good margins.

And the idea of "these racks are my kubernetes cluster and are supported by the OEM as such" has a lot of value to a lot of the medium sized IT departments I've run across.

Can you expand on what you mean on "coupling the hardware to the software"?


Is Apple really a good counterexample for the success of integrating software and hardware?




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