Right now Asahi increases the value of ARM based Macs slightly since there's another market of people who will buy them.

Once Asahi means that people can keep end-of-life ARM based Macs running, the calculation for Apple will change.

Asahi Linux is basically top notch engineering for free. Unless it gets (really) big, I don't see any reason for Apple to even consider putting it down.

I very much doubt it. The only reason Asahi is even installable is because M series Mac were designed to allow installing other OSes. I know that sounds crazy, especially with all the reverse engineering needed to get Asahi to work. But without intentional design on the part an Apple engineer working on the initial M series chip, installing alternative OSes would be impossible.

Probably not. It's not a threat to their business and all it would do is make them look worse among the people who are savvy enough to know about it.

A part of me wants to believe that there are still humans at Apple and they also appreciate what the developer has accomplished.

I like risky sports (relative for some people it might be boring) but when I have to work or even play I want stuff that just works. I can't imagine using a laptop and wondering every day if this is the last update to my OS I might get.

Sure Apple laptops might be great hardware, you might love the design, etc but just the fact that this question exists make it impossible to consider such hardware.

TL;DR: I don't know and I don't want to care. Please support OEMs who are not making money by selling locked hardware.

also apple really do brick after firmware update but to everyone not only asahi users by using 60Hz screen refresh rate :clown_emoji: