Plenty of them are buying Macbooks. It's definitely a small percentage of the worldwide market, but not entirely insignificant either.

> IT departments are not going to stop buying x86 processors until they absolutely are forced to.

IT departments are buying arm laptops, Apple's.

And there is an incentive to switch, cost. If you are in AWS, you can save a pretty penny by adopting graviton processors.

Further, the only thing stopping handhelds from being arm machines is poor x86 emulation. A solvable problem with a small bit of hardware. (Only non-existent because current ARM vendors can't be bothered to add it and ARM hasn't standardized it).

Really the only reason arm is lagging is because the likes of Qualcomm have tunnel vision on what markets they want to address.

Massively lower power consumption and way less waste heat to dispose of.

Literally the two biggest concerns of every data centre on earth.

What's this based on? Surely the proportion of desktops that need to be more powerful than anything Apple is doing on ARM is very small. And surely Apple isn't 5 years ahead?