If Apple licensed their optimised variant of ARM to third parties, Steam would probably jump right on it, along with other hardware manufacturers. The performance Apple Silicon got over the x86 machines it replaced was game-changing, along with the improved battery life. And other ARM vendors, whilst behind Apple (who do have excellent CPU engineers), are catching up.
If Apple licensed their optimised variant of ARM to third parties, Steam would probably jump right on it, along with other hardware manufacturers. The performance Apple Silicon got over the x86 machines it replaced was game-changing, along with the improved battery life. And other ARM vendors, whilst behind Apple (who do have excellent CPU engineers), are catching up.
Keep dreaming, and even if Apple magically licensed out I’m not sure it would be worthwhile.
Intel & AMD have been incredible at maintaining, supporting mainline Linux and keeping old hardware supported.
Apple on the other hand ends support at 7years maximum, no Linux support.
Qualcomm ends support at 5y with support being the bear minimum for Linux.