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equating the "lack of apps/missing apps" on Surface RT to some superiority of Intel chips vs Arm chips doesn't make any sense anyways. The apps which MS decided to support/not support for Surface RT was a decision by MS..not some limitation of Arm chips. e.g. Surface RT did not support iTunes..but Windows phones (also powered by Arm chips) does..so clearly it was a MS decision (or possibly Apple defending their turf)..not some inherent flaw of the AP.

Umh, do you have a clue who owns the iTunes source code and what a compiler is? What does that tell you about the part Microsoft doesn't have the slightest influence on?

That's actually a simple dependency many analysts don't seem to understand when they are bullish about ARM replacing x86. ARM can't make anyone recompile and, at least partially, rewrite their source code. Only the owner of the source code can, which is probably a million companies or so.

Why does Android run on x86 then? Because it runs on a virtual machine which is unique. Neither Windows nor iOS does the same.