“The bull case for Apple over the past year has been that booming sales of iPod music players will create a ‘halo effect’ that will lead to higher demand for the company’s Macintosh computers,” Troy Wolverton writes for TheStreet.com.
Wolverton writes, “While Apple has seen an uptick in Macintosh sales in recent quarters, that momentum may be slowed by the recent announcement that it is switching the processor at the heart of its computers from the PowerPC line produced by IBM and Freescale Semiconductor to chips made by Intel. Although Apple offered valid reasons for the switch, it could lead customers to delay computer purchases or choose rival systems based on Microsoft’s Windows operating system.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Clearly, Mac users find that latter option hilarious. Windows-only users, however, would miss the joke. Mac users aren’t going to choose Microsoft Windows based on Apple’s processor choice. It’s the OS, stupid (and the Apple Mac-only applications). The full article gives various viewpoints, including one we agree with: Mac sales will may slow in the short term, but Apple’s core Mac business will be better in the long term.
“More than even the processor, more than even the hardware innovations that we bring to the market, the soul of a Mac is its operating system and we’re not standing still.” – Steve Jobs, WWDC 2005 Keynote, June 6, 2005