and

MS makes it money from their software not hardware

Then

Apple should just do likewise and drop their beautiful hardware and fight with what everyone claims it is ” the OS”

I don’t like it but makes sense.

It doesn’t count if you do it at 3 a.m.

The likes of mini is the high-volume, low-margin product which will have a proven supplier in Intel. The PPC market (which currently has a better road map) can stay with the PPC.

I also think that WiMax and XScale will make its way into other Apple products, too.

my €.04
Matt

If so – Apple better be VERY careful if they are gonna go intel – because theyre hardware business with vanish over night!

Bye bye Apple hardware division!

I sure hope you are a good-looking woman with a nice set of ta-tas! If not, run around Microsoft….

Pipe dreams…

I don’t think any of this speculation means much…
let the chief speak today.

One thing’s for sure…it’ll be a heavy trading day for the AAPL stock if the report rings true.

Better play your cards right.

<:lol:>|<:lol:>

CTï

Pipe dreams…

I don’t think any of this speculation means much…
let the chief speak today.

One thing’s for sure…it’ll be a heavy trading day for the AAPL stock if the report rings true.

Better play your cards right.

<:lol:>|<:lol:>

CT†

On which basis I sincerely hope that the rumour is true.

(muted) Go Apple!

Steve Jobs… white background… “We’re switching”

Would you have bought your new G5 if you knew that Apple was going to switch to a different, maybe better, processor????

Best. Advertising. Ever.

Do you trust Steve jobs’ decision?

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=23708

I know I know – you’re already screaming “no you fool!”

But just ‘hear’ me out…

Is it at all possible that the “Apple Tablet” device seen recently, and also the Mac Mini (or similar) could be designed around an Intel based architecture (with necessary copy-protection imbedded) for an Apple Media server type product for the “lounge room”????

What I am getting at, is that this device could be based on a revised version of OS X, it would be PURPOSE built for media, and could even include a recompiled version of iLife (maybe even iWork).

In this way there is NO NEED for software developers to re-do software, as the PowerMac and iMac line remain on the Power PC platform (I am still wondering what they will do about Altivec – Intel don’t have anything that comes close!).

As this “Apple media server” is OS X based, it could EASILY network with OS X Tiger.

So I know your asking why do it at all??

IBM don’t have the copyright protection system, and as it has been mentioned it is possible this Intel deal is being driven by the “iFilms” possibilities.

To me this does a number of things:

1)Allows Apple to get into the movie equivalent of iTunes Music Store.
2)Sticks a rocket up IBM (i.e. we are committed to the PowerPC architecture, which we still think is superior for computing, however we now have an insurance policy if you guys falter, or start pulling out yourselves)
3)Lets Apple introduce more Windows users to OS X (albeit a Media Server version), and can then “up-sell” them to a PowerPC Apple Mac with OS X tiger (which of course will be able to SEAMLESSLY connect to their Apple Media Server due to Bonjour and the whole Apple experience.
4)If they supply API’s etc to the “media server” version of OS X, 3rd party developers can start to develop OS X on x86 which are multimedia related (i.e. games – Intel gets its chips back in the lounge room!)
5)The whole thing would make the boys at Redmond s$@t bricks!!!

I really think that if you look at what Steve has been doing recently – this is a possible scenario. It lets Steve realise the media centre concept, without making his “real computers” (based on PowerPC) into small boxes to be hidden in a cupboard (you don’t need great industrial design to make a black box in a cupboard). It kicks Microsoft in the shins. It satisfies Hollywood enough about copy-protection to allow Apple to launch “iMovie Film Store”. It works for Intel – they aren’t locked out of the living room by IBM. It puts IBM on notice, keep dragging your heels, and we have a way out. AND most importantly, it opens up new markets (with a new architecture) WITHOUT pissing off the existing Mac fanatics!!!!

Of course its just my 2 cents!

Luke

devil-inside.jpg

Here’s a temporal lesson.

No one actually has to wait longer than anyone else to know what the truth is on this matter. Everyone gets to find out the same “truth” at the same moment, no matter what time the clock says, because Steve Jobs will only be giving his keynote address one time.

… that is, unless you believe in parallel universes.

It’s all relative.

Donnie, See ya later!

Um, yeah…. The holes are not going to be filled in until the announcement is actually made.

Geesh

I may agree if it were a switch to x86, but its clearly not, and Intel does more than just x86

if apple switches to intel, then it’s bye, bye apple.

I’ll be getting a dual-processor boxx with AMDs instead…

For all you arm chair “Apple CEO’s”, “Mac Experts”, “Analysts” and what not, if iCon throws everyone a curve ball tomorrow or sometime soon, prove you got some and admit your ignorant stupidity with some style and grace.

For those needed help with this, it goes something like this: “Yummy (licks lips and fingers), crow”.

Tomorrow will be the first time that I will be upset that I am on the East Coast. Not till after 1 PM will I know the truth……

And even better, Apple really wants to use DRM controlled by Microsoft.

MDN, think things through before you retread opinion found on the web. You’re better than this.

To be fair, I wouldn’t be surprised if many of the readers of MDN are in fact fairly expert in Apple’s business. For example, I have been using Macs for 21 years, programming Mac software for a living for 18, and have been an Apple shareholder for 12 years. I have closely observed Apple’s spectacular successes and failures over the years.

That doesn’t mean that any of us claims to be, as you say we claim to be, “all knowing” experts. That would be a pretty outrageous, even blasphemous, claim. But it does mean that we’re not all blathering hacks holed up in our living rooms chain smoking and playing armchair CEO as you suggest.

You want to move to Windows XP and buy all new apps, and then do it again with Longhore, because you don’t want to “buy all my apps AGAIN”

Stick with the Mac! By the time you purchase an Intel Mac you will most likely have already upgraded your apps for other reasons. And they will run natively on both platforms.

Then again it is a rumor, it think, right? What did the New York Times confirm again?

Magic Word “knew” (sorry, I couldn’t pass that one up.)

Can’t stop writing it cuz Transitive is vaporware.

Also, the main premise of this article (in which you place so much credence) is flawed. If Apple’s video ambitions rely on a critical mass of computers utilizing HARDWARE IP protection, than the iTunes/iVideo store is dead in the water. There is no existing market.

This “download a video” technology is unlikely to be rapidly adopted, like say DVD.

According to TiVo’s website, there are only 1.9 million TiVo subscribers. Nothing to scoff at, but not world-shattering. How many satelite radio receivers are there in the wild? Far fewer than iPods. Dramatically fewer than Macs/PCs.

These are the hardware technologies Apple would be competing against. Apple would be doomed like a Napster or a BuyMusic.com.

The only viable solution is cross-platform software and existing hardware.

Now I don’t know if they will make this move or not. I would think not but then again who the hell am I to be sure one way or the other? What the hell do I know about Apple’s best business interests? Or better yet, what do all of you?

So if crow is on the menu tomorrow I just want to know if all the appropriate parties are going to eat up.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=23708

Instead, scroll back up to the top of this page and read the artical snip.

If you’re confused click on the “full artical here” link and read.

If you’re still confused click on the “or so the company claims” link and read.

I apologize to those of you who actually read before you post.

This product is similar to Virtual PC except it allows OSX to run on an Intel Chip (for our discussion) so well, that apparently only an extreme power user will see the difference.

Power users are not going to be abandon. I’m sure Apple will continue to upgrade the G5 product line allowing a smooth transition. Who knows maybe the pentium D chips with the Transitive emulator will perform quite well.

Think of the businesses. Apple will lose ALL credibility in the corporate space. Single vendor hardware typically is a no-no, but I wouldn’t want to be the IT director of a large Mac based infrastructure that suddenly and without any warnings, find that all that hardware/software needs to be ported all over again.

Dell sucks, but one of the reasons they’re successful in the corporate world is that they publish a hardware ROADMAP. With Apple; it’s surprises. And businesses DON’T LIKE SURPRISES.

First the waiting for the release of OS X Tiger. Hanging around my front porch waiting for the UPS dude. And now this potential watershed moment in my Mac life!

Damd this waiting and suspense! Damd it all to hell!

I don’t beleive it. There are huge holes. iTunes and iPod DRM’d music, why would hardware DRM on a Mac for movies be outside of the grasp of Apple, would Steve Jobs roll over so quickly after so masterful a win? I don’t think so.

Just the same old rumor coming ’round.