Five Four years ago today, OSNews published some interesting articles. Apple announced it was
dropping PPC for x86 (that one was a bombshell). That news was met with fear, excitement, and a fair bit of skepticism.
Five Four years later, that decision has gone down as one of the smartest, gutsiest moves in computing business history. Congratulations to Apple's engineers for making it go so smoothly. We also examined whether "soon" personal computers will have the ability to
respond to stimuli from the outside world, by seeing and interpreting video or other signals. We're still waiting on that one. (And the project we linked to is now a dead link).
Note: due to a back-end Snafu, this one didn't post until the fifth, but it's still an interesting date in OSNews history, so enjoy.
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2005-07-06
I think it's understandable why people reacted the way they reacted. After all, Apple itself had to eat its own words, too. They more or less successfully camouflaged it by trying to spin it into a positive light marketing wise by showing some pretty graphs. But they definitely did a 180 degree turnaround.
P.S why am i unable to see more than a handful of comments when there are 336?