I’m completely baffled by this comment. Itanium is dead, never made it to the desktop and so has zero chance and we have an actual mass market Arm desktop available - and apparently selling very well.
I think they were arguing that it showed more promise at the time. I disagree though, I think it was simply too over-priced for the mainstream. M1 is very competitive both performance-wise and price-wise. I don’t think it will unseat the reigning champ x86 but do see them living side-by-side for a long time.
