On: Google developing own CPUs for Chromebook laptops

[zanethomas]

... and

The proprietary cpus will only run software obtained from the corresponding app store.

You can take that to the bank.

[sneak → zanethomas]

Yeah. This is more about full stack DRM to provide rentseeking opportunities than Intel's fat (but historically tolerable) margins.

[marcellus23 → zanethomas]

Yeah, this won’t be happening.

[pjc50 → marcellus23]

It effectively is already happening: that's the iOS model. The fact that it's not enforced by incompatible instructions is irrelevant.

[marcellus23 → pjc50]

Because macOS is not iOS.

[oblio → marcellus23]

Why?