On Apple side I don’t see what they have to gain with that. It will cost time and money to implement to help Android users mostly not Apple users.
It’s counterintuitive for a company to invest to support others, but I guess now it’s the end of the polemic.

When using as a watch to look time and complications the round one looks much nicer. But if you open any app, even a simple app, you lose too much UI space on round design… and designers to their best but it’s just much more useful area on a square

Depends what you mean by “making a dent”. Apple aline doubled market share. With Qualcomm and nvidia entering the space, if Microsoft make a good translation layer for Windows, it’s possible too see others make a dent.

They don’t need to lead to take 10% of Intel sales and this would be a huge dent (for investors)… so I think this declaration is for the market, but Intel should be worried.

Even because you don’t need to beat the top x86 in performance. If you have a mid range CPU with MacBook battery life, it will be enough for many to buy the ARM one, since many users would want this but with Windows