“Apple’s transition to Intel processors continues to gather pace, and developers are churning out Universal applications,” Macworld UK reports. “While other stories dominated the post results news agenda, Apple chief financial officer, Peter Oppenheimer, confirmed the speed at which the Intel transition is gathering pace.”
Macworld UK reports, “Speaking during Wednesday’s third quarter results discussion, the Apple executive said: ‘We have released Universal versions of Apple’s consumer and professional software applications and our third-party developers have released over 2,900 universal applications. We expect that over 70 per cent of the 500 applications we consider most critical to our customers will be available in Universal versions by the end of September.”
“In terms of Mac sales, he confirmed 75 per cent of Macs shipped in the last quarter ran on Intel chips,” Macworld UK reports.
Full article here.
It’s looking like Apple is going from one of IBM’s most neglected partners to one of Intel’s most important.
“It’s looking like Apple is going from one of IBM’s most neglected partners to one of Intel’s most important.”
In terms of press and publicity, yes, but not in terms of numbers, volume, and profits…
Hopefully Apple’s high profile and energetic demeanor is enough to leverage against its small percentages of the market, and give it some weight in Intel’s eyes.
YAY!!!
All I need is Photoshop CS 3 – hopefully ready for 64 bits and able to use my 6 MB of RAM.
Dick
Things are looking very bright for Apple. Happy to have contributed in both the iPod and intel iMac lines
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6MB of RAM?
What a Dick…
Dick – you only have 6MB of RAM? Whoa. My first powerbook had more than that…
I thought there were no applications for the mac.
(sarcasm)
Go easy on Dick…
“he’s been mostly dead all day!”
lets get microsoft office on this list ASAP. my macbook slows to a grinding halt whenever i use the non-Universal office suite…
I think he meant inches instead of MB
Too bad that the most important ones – MS Office, Adobe CS, and Intuit’s Quicken/Quickbooks aren’t going to ready any time soon.
JG
You are talking about Microsoft ya know. You’ll be lucky if you see a UB of Office prior to 2008.
This is potentially an opportunity for a different bunch of companies to get a bit of a foothold in certain markets while Adobe and Microsoft catch up… of course, he says that knowing it probably takes 5 years and 100 people to write something to replace Photoshop. But I wouldn’t have thought a better word processor would take all that long, not with Cocoa as a back end.
My point is, who’s on top now had better get their acts together, or someone more nimble may take your place (if Apple themselves don’t.)
Of course, if someone more nimble does bring out a killer app, they’ll likely either be bought out or sued into oblivion via ridiculous patents. Bummer eh? So much for the free market and competition.
“It’s looking like Apple is going from one of IBM’s most neglected partners to one of Intel’s most important.”
In terms of press and publicity, yes, but not in terms of numbers, volume, and profits…
Hopefully Apple’s high profile and energetic demeanor is enough to leverage against its small percentages of the market, and give it some weight in Intel’s eyes.
I can be pretty cynical sometimes, but in this case:
Apple is buying 5 million chips from Intel this year
Apple’s sales appear to be growing
Apple has just handed 12% of the notebook market to Intel
In a catfight over market share, Apple is very important to Intel’s plans.
Yeah, Dick got excited the other day.
But then he threw up in a coat and passed out.
If Apple announces a spreadsheet to go with the iWork suite, it’s bye-bye Office for me; I just imported my email to Apple’s Mail app and calendar info to iCal (though I’m not crazy about the interfaces) because I’m tired of the spinning beachball. (Wish I could find an integrated email/calendar app similar to Entourage that’s Universal, though…)
MW=pool; wish my home WiFi network was powerful enough to take my iBook out to the pool…it’s hot in here today…
“2,900 Universal applications”
I hope that means it works on the planets of Alpha Centauri A. You know, gamma ray resistant and all.
So where’s the universal PhotoShop?!?!?
Don’t give me that “It’s hard to convert PhotoShop” junk. Adobe is just dragging their feet so they can get the maximum number of people to pay for another upgrade.
It’s what you do when you have a monopoly.
Adobe has been a pure ass to Apple I’m afraid.
Before Steve Jobs returned, Adobe had written off Apple and even was recommending people buy Windows PCs so they could standardize on one platform.
Of course this was the fault of the former Apple CEO, basically running Apple into the ground. But it forced the board to get Jobs back in the game so I excused it.
Then Apple released the G5 processor for professionals and everything was fine. Until IBM (and the entire industry) hit the performance wall and had to resort to multi-core processors.
Apple announced a switch to Intel processors, and the CEO from Adobe gets up on stage and say “It’s about time!” Like Steve really could predict IBM’s failure, what a ass.
So now Adobe with plenty, repeat PLENTY of advanced notice and also X-Code, are dragging their ass getting a Mactel version of Photoshop.
All I hear is blog complaints coming from Adobe programmers how it’s so hard to switch the code from Metroworks to X-Code and they just don’t have the skills like the original PS coders did.
Whahahahhaha!!
I’m betting Adobe had to get a copy of Wintel Photoshop finished first before the MacTel version. Because Vista is going to be released at the end of this year and most likely the Mac version will be a port of the Wintel version, thus the reason why it will be shipped in spring 2006.
Most likely the Mactel version will run slower on PPC hardware.
Universal Binaries doesn’t mean universal performance.
This is great news.
I too look forward to CS3, not because I use it that often, but when I do, I need speed.
MSOffice going native will be nice also. But in truth, what I want is iWork 07 to be simply fantastic and there no need for me to buy MSOffice any longer.
But MSOffice is critical to the Mac platform, so I do hope it goes native sooner than later so Apple can sell more Macs.
So basically everything we need as a universal binary is available except Photoshop.
Photoshop CS2 came out in April 2005, and in late July 2005 Metroworks announced that Code Warrior would be discontinued after the next version. Futhermore, as soon as Intel Macs were announced in 2005, everyone knew from the start that Code Warrior would not be able to generate universal binaries.
It was the worst possible timing for Adobe to deal with the Intel Mac transition.