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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?

That's when I really started to detest Apple. I'd been a Mac advocate for a while, and I fully bought the whole, "the RISC PPC is really much faster, in terms of operations dispatched, despite it's lower clock-speed." When they switched to x86, the message was, "look how much faster these x86 chips are! THEIR CLOCK SPEEDS ARE SO MUCH HIGHER!" They switched messages without missing a beat. Their blatant display of self-righteous, unashamed self-contradiction and hypocrisy lost them one hard-core Mac advocate.

Select Flat view/per page ALL. It was from before the forums were threaded - nested view doesn't work right.

What I recall from the whole switchover was Jobs' adamant denial a few weeks beforehand that Apple would never, ever, not in million years support the x86 platform. I think the news had been broken on the Apple secrets site that was shut down a couple of years ago. I can only speculate as to his reasons for the denial (contract negotiations I suppose), but the way it came off after Apple made it public was that he was just lying outright. And this about face didn't gather as much attention as I'd hoped.