Back in November 2024, VMware Fusion became free for personal use. It was a big shocker at the time, especially when the end days of Intel Macs didn’t seem to be dated yet. VMware on x86 machines had been a competitive product against Parallels, both paid solutions to running Windows on Macs, until 4 years passed since the first Apple Silicon device launch in 2020. I won’t pretend to know what motivated Broadcom, VMware’s parent company, to be so generous; but for a product that hasn’t seen official support of new Apple hardware for 4 years, I can see how…