THey aren't dominating technically though, in engineering-driven markets. They are "dominating" because of likely anticompetitive agreements, inertia, and the like.
Their ad (already a sort of plea/admission of weakness) basically relies on that inertia and structure. I guess it is good they aren't completely dismissive of AMD and Apple+ARM.
The barbarians are at the gate. IBM was once invincible too.
I also should note that ARM is particularly dangerous in EC2/aws. Setting up an ARM instance to try out is really easy compared to an x86 instance. All of a sudden, you realize an ARM platform on Linux is little additional effort from a package standpoint. Then some software maker realized setting up ARM test platforms is near-effortless in CI builds.
Their ad (already a sort of plea/admission of weakness) basically relies on that inertia and structure. I guess it is good they aren't completely dismissive of AMD and Apple+ARM.
The barbarians are at the gate. IBM was once invincible too.
I also should note that ARM is particularly dangerous in EC2/aws. Setting up an ARM instance to try out is really easy compared to an x86 instance. All of a sudden, you realize an ARM platform on Linux is little additional effort from a package standpoint. Then some software maker realized setting up ARM test platforms is near-effortless in CI builds.
Uhoh, the instruction set doesn't matter anymore.