Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 5th Jun 2005 22:11 UTC
After News.com's Friday report that Apple is moving to Intel/x86, the respected publication Wall Street Journal and now NYTimes threw their reputation behind the rumor. Many people still remain skeptical, but I personally believe that the time is right for Apple to switch to x86-64, for two main reasons:
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I liked the editorial, but my take is this:
People buy Apple for the OS and software. As long as they can compute the Mac way, the hardware it runs on is actually immaterial. If Apple had put in a no brand CPU in my Powerbook, but my applications behaved as I expect it to, I wouldn't care.
Os X Tiger for all PCs! At $99 a license, they would sell millions of copies to Windows users who are tired of all the trojans and worms. Instead of going to Linux, now they have Os X as a choice. All the top Apple programs (iLife etc) just need to be recompiled for Intel to run. They probably have all the important programs compiled for the new architecture already.
Within a year, Apple share of all the currently running OSes will increase by at least 10-fold. Even if many pirated copies are run on Intel, in the long run this would increase the number of PCs running Os X astronomically. That is how MS became as big as it has and now has to resort to DRM and other schemes to prevent pirating.
Its time Steve exacted his revenge on Bill for continuously stealing ideas from Mac Os.
Way to go Apple!