Apple & Intel
As for the news that apple is switching chip suppliers, ditching ibm in favor of intel - i just don’t buy it. Read John Gruber for the reasons - there’s no way this is gonna be a smooth switch, putting an incredible burden on users and developers, what with the huge architectural differences. Even more importantly, should apple announce this at wwdc and the switch will take until 2006 (as suggested in that cnet rumor), they’ll cannibalize their sales for the rest of 2005 and i really don’t think apple’s willing to take that hit. Perhaps ibm isn’t as reliable as apple’d like and they sure didn’t make good on their promise to bump the g5 to 3ghz till ‘04, but losing two or more quarters after having been able to grow sales and extend market share lately sure looks like the more costly path to me. Of course feel free to call me out on this one on monday if i’m wrong.
Later: Yeah, i was totally wrong.