[DM-MUG] Apple moving to Intel - confirmed by Jobs at WWDC

[Matthew Wheeler]

I'm also shocked at the sudden and total Intel migration plan (so it's 
XTel, MacTel or AppTel now?), though I had wondered about this in 
general terms for some time. Apple has been leaning towards becoming a 
cross-platform software company for years (see iPod, ITunes Airport 
Admin Utility, OS X Server, and Quicktime for current examples). 
Regardless of Apple's previous stance of, "We're a hardware company," 
they have been making inroads into software for some time. I suspect 
that the confidence the iPod has imbued allows this plan to be more 
palatable.

Though there is no obvious reason why Apple would do this (to us Mac 
users anyway), I think Apple is showing great maturity in this 
decision. There is no posturing or blaming and it looks like the real 
reason this is going forward is very business oriented. It's a bit sad 
to see that there's no blatant, vacuous, or childish reasoning behind 
this. Apple is truly growing up. What cause should we all start 
rallying around next?

Matthew

On Jun 6, 2005, at 1:29 PM, Victoria L. Herring wrote:

>> Does this mean you will be able to run OS X on a Dell (or whatever)?  
>> That would be an intriguing challenge to Windows Longhorn, but at the 
>> same time be a challenge to Apple hardware.
>>
>> John
>
> Right now Apple sells Macs based on coolness, image, performance, 
> stability, quality etc...so I see no change and maybe more will sell 
> given speed improvements that will be possible...the OS will be less 
> important maybe if it's capable of being run on all kinds of 
> machines...?
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