Cheap is relative. Right now their M1 devices are objectively the cheapest practical ARM64 workstation products on the market. I don't see why they shouldn't be able to maintain that lead for a while as costs come down for ARM64 workstations in general. And I think it is reasonable to expect that ARM64 platforms will eventually be cheaper than x86 ones.
When you are making an effort to buy a $400 laptop than any flagship product from any vendor is out of the question. $400 products are not what define the future landscape of the market.
I am not trying to say that the entire impoverished world is going to go out and start buying Macbooks because of the M1. What I am saying is that practical ARM64 workstations are now a lot more plausible at every price point because of what the M1 demonstrated.
One of the parents talked about the rest of the world. Hence my reply. You don't have to be in the 3rd world to consider an Apple product extremely expensive.
I agree that practical ARM64 Workstations will be more feasible now, but there's still a large gap.
There's a whole market of refurbished 1st world componentes. I talk a lot with people from LATAM and they're are used to buy 2nd hand Xeons with Chinese motherboards for their prosumer market.
They even sell packs of Xeons + motherboard + Memory (it was DDR3 recently, IDK how much that changed).
In many countries people hacked early 2000s games and there are communities maintaining such games because many people has not the means to play the last titles. Nor money to pay for subscriptions and such. They pirated the whole ecosystem.
This is pretty common in Russia and Turkey too. I guess in other countries it is too.
I do have websites in Spanish and try to make them lightweight and avoid JS because I know some of my visitors will have a hard time with it.
I think it is safe to assume they will only get cheaper from their launch-day prices.