The smartphone/computer phone market the same way X86 has dominated the PC market.

Also as far as I know has ARM SoC been used so far anywhere else than in the iPad? (dumb question maybe but I was curious to see what CPU they re-branded this time so I read about the big SoC bla bla)

Intel for an example also entered the SoC race.
IMHO cash is the only thing that allowed Intel to outrun AMD (just consider the innovation amd brought - X64 and breaking the ghz barrier - how else could intel have prevailed if not my investing billions into research?).


And in the end it's not about the race to idle or about the one with the greatest potential. It's about who makes himself popular first.

Just as RISC vs CISC.
Probably if RISC would have been adopted first, our computers would be twice as powerful and twice as green...? Who knows...

It seems to me that people (I am) are more likely to embrace X86 since it's wider spread largely adopted and has a huge application base (makes it significantly easier for developers or do I get the wrong idea?) rather than switch to a whole different standard.
Mobiles are regarded as non standard systems incompatible with PCs so ARM will never make an impact.
But the second I copy the Pidgin.rpm (I just installed on my pc) and install the same package on my phone, there's a whole different story.

I know linux is ARM compatible but that won't change the fact that the world is 90% X86-X64 and reluctant to change.

I don't think the best technology will decide.
I only hope Intel will make a huge step forward to become the best technology.

This thread is revelatory(to me)