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== Legacy ==

The PowerPC transition restored Apple’s performance competitiveness, especially in multimedia and graphics-intensive markets.<ref name="macworld"/> The successful use of emulation and fat binaries influenced two later Apple transitions: [[Mac transition to Intel processors|to Intel x86 in 2006]] and [[Mac transition to Apple silicon|to Apple silicon (ARM) in 2020]].

However, Apple's [[classic Mac OS]] left little room for modern OS features, prompting a later shift to the [[NeXTSTEP]]-derived [[macOS]] platform. Eventually, PowerPC lost competitiveness in power efficiency, leading to a the Intel transition in 2006.