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

[Jeff Muller]

I guess I'll have to stop using the line, "Intel Inside: World's Most 
Prolific Warning Label".


On Jun 7, 2005, at 12:46 AM, Matthew Wheeler wrote:

> 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