Linked by Craig Dooley on Wed 8th Jun 2005 19:01 UTC
With the announcement that Apple is switching to Intel, the computing world has been thrown a curve ball. Speculation will run rampant for the next year. We obviously won't know what's going to happen until it happens, but I see a bright future coming out of this. I see Apple with more headroom for the future to create better, faster designs. I see much more opportunity for the hacker community to work with this also.
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My first posting anywhere on this. I have been looking, but I haven't seen this factor pointed out anywhere.
I think the single biggest factor in Apple's switch is Intel's DRM roadmap.
Apple is cozying up to record and music companies, convincing them that iTunes is the way to go. Every couple of months a new iTunes hack comes out. How do you think that makes Apple look? Big Media has had nowhere better to go than Apple so far, but I think the gauntlet must have been cast: when hardware DRM is available, anything else gets cut off.
This isn't a move for performance. It isn't a marketing move. It is going to hurt Apple's computer buisness in the short term, but it is the right thing for their iPod/iTunes buisness. Wow, it is going to hurt their computer buisness: Mac OS X is going to be hacked in no time to run on any computer.... unless hardware DRM can fix that too.