I also work for a Fortune 500 company. Unless the employees are doing anything related to Apple ecosystem, they will be carrying Thinkpads instead, or using classical PC desktops, with external contractors having virtual workstations via the various cloud offerings.

Overall Apple desktop market across the world, is still around 12%.

Yeah. At tech companies and tech conferences, you get a pretty distorted view of the sorts of computers most people are using. Especially taking into account the fact that you probably also see a disproportionate number of people running Linux on Thinkpads in a lot of places, one might assume that Windows is barely used by looking at laptops at the typical event I attend.

I don’t work for a tech company. I work for a major sporting goods company.

I'm sure there are exceptions. Nonetheless, something like 80% of the PC market overall is Windows.

it's not really windows marketshare that matters - it's the instruction set. x86 compatible instruction set is dominant today.

If apple really want to disrupt intel (and i guess by collateral damage, AMD), they will release the m1 CPU as a commodity. but they will also have to figure out how to get microsoft to play ball as well (which i am not sure they will).

iPhones have been running Apple silicon ARM for a decade. The M1 chip is quite similar to the chip used in the 2020 iPad Pro. It's done.

Apple is basically already using M1 in iOS devices. The A14 is basically to an M1 to what an M1 is to an M1 Pro.