Predictions aren't necessary when you have lived long enough to see most of their major products brought to the market.
This gives you all the information you need to know on their less is more attitude to business, it's not rocket science, just a business model that obviously works for them, I'm not stating otherwise.
Those are all (or mostly) open source code projects that Apple can contribute their own patches to.
That is they can contribute a patch, it won't necessarily land without the projects positive review and consent.
From what I have been told, no such patch has landed in the Blender mainline yet.
Speaking of open source, none of the applications I mentioned are, and most of those on the slide you mentioned are available elsewhere due to their being open projects
I have run Apple, the few most disagreeable modules I had during my 5 years in university forced me to use a Mac system - the only thing I was impressed by was the monitors and how much the university had wasted upon those computers when other departments were in dire need of upgrades and up to date software licenses.
I have also come across Apple phones often enough that I have never had any desire to buy one, before and long after my first smartphone purchase in 2011 (Samsung, also now overpriced in full hubris mode).
You have so much bias and lack some basic understanding of tech on the cutting edge , its beyond astonishing for someone with informative tech posts.....
From all of your responses you seems to be a cost sensitive consumer (great!) , never had an iPhone , bashing Samsung for overpriced products and content with your old tech doing you service , its all nice and dandy , what you seem to miss is the fact that you have a great budget phone is BECAUSE someone has to put the R&D first to make it economically and commercially viable , so for example Samsung asking price for their newest display is higher NOW because they have to recoup the R&D investment , they do so selling it for a premium , a year or 2 goes by and BAM your 0 R&D Chinese OEM slaps it on his mid tier phone with the rest of the old premium components and you praise it as VALUE!!!! same for Qualcomm , Hynix and the rest of the parts that make out your great value phone.
that`s great , and it works out for you , but you need to understand that someone needs to pay the bill for TSMC 5nm R&D for example so you can get your great chips down the road it is NOT economically viable for TSMC to do it if their customers want to buy it for cheap to put in their budget phones (currently Apple are at the front of this) , if everyone wanted to spend 400$ on a phone , we wouldnt be making rapid progress across the industry in the rate we are doing now , you can look up the Apple HW margins 38% vs Intel 60% for example as to who is really gauging you when building a laptop.
2nd thing for you to consider , you have such a strong bias that you will not buy anything Apple for over a decade (or never actually) , not even giving them a chance , meaning your inputs as someone that tries to evaluate Apple tech\business is skewed , think about it , you cant even bring yourself to buy an iPhone , which by all accounts is a great device , battery life , performance , QC , display , maybe for 1 generation to evaluate where they are now days ? "you came across iPhones" is not the really the same as using one as a daily driver.
lastly , when discussing this transition (more on topic) , I want you to sit back and think about why is it that you are so negative about it ? and what will it take to convince you that this was the right move for Apple , you had this gem to write "because Apple felt like ditching x86. " at the end of another one of your negative posts , do you see the bias and hate oozing from your posts ? do you feel that Apple put all the required expensive engineering (which is a TON , unless you dont think that replacing the entire lineup of Intel is indeed a big R&D spending) and risk their small footprint in the PC space just to save money on CPU parts and aggravate everyone ? is this the grand plan here ? to do it as you wrote before "because they felt like it" , do you think this is how Apple make decisions ?
You are one of the folks (as one of the biggest posters in this thread) I would like to see evaluate the change from a technical POV once the systems are in the wild , and if the machines are better then Intel/AMD (you can decide that of course) , give them the credit , maybe , god forbid , buy one as a punishment!.
I will be waiting with Crow , lets see who eats it! i will be happy to say I am wrong with no disclaimers or asterisk.
One last thing if you may , so we can have it in writing somewhere , for crow eating purposes , can you provide some metrics in which we can say who "won" on the SoC design.
State few benchmarks/usecases you think are the most meaningful so we can have a baseline , for example i saw some usecase Intel are winning in some obscure SW 3x vs Ryzen , is this something i even think is relevant when i compare the 2 platforms ? of course not . When i compare AMD vs Intel , i like AMD much more this days and call them the "winning" CPU even tough they lose out on use cases.
Have a good day , sorry for the long post , not used to communicating over in forums as you can see .