By WWDC 2007, A le will be switching to Intel. What does this mean?It depends on who you are. If you are a mobile user, like myself, it mea there will be no Powerbook G5. The next Powerbook will be ru ing on an Intel chip.
In fact, it most likely mea that there will be no new A le hardware until there is some sort of Intel-powered A le product. I ca ot imagine A le managing to sell many machines ru ing a PowerPC chip after they just ditched the platform so openly and quickly. So if you've been waiting for the WWDC before buying that new Mac, you might have to wait quite a bit longer.
This probably also mea that Macworld Boston *could* be the place where some new hardware ru ing on Intel will first emerge. I'm gue ing that we'll see new Intel-based hardware trickle in sooner rather than later. Otherwise, A le's sales are going to bottom out.
Jason thinks that A le's next move will be to give the OS away for free, get everyone hooked, and then start charging. This is an interesting theory, as it is the same bait and switch they pulled with iLife and iTools become .Mac.
I don't think it will ha en, though. I could be totally wrong. I was about today's news.
I could see A le now selling the OS to any machine. Steve said, "The soul of a Mac is its operating system". If that's true, then what is to stop a marketing movement called "Make Your PC a Mac: Give it some soul."
It also mea that that "soul" will most likely be shackled by DRM.... Don't get me started.
These are just some random thoughts I am having as I reel in shock at this news. What do you think?
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