[IP] The real problem with the Apple-Intel announcement: Osbournization
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From: Ross Finlayson <finlayson@xxxxxxxx>
Date: June 6, 2005 10:05:21 PM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: For IP: The real problem with the Apple-Intel announcement:
Osbournization
Personally, I'm concerned for Apple - not because of the technical
challenges (they are surmountable) - but because of the likelihood
that Apple has now 'Osbourned' themselves. (I assume that most IP
readers are old enough to understand the "Osbourne" reference.)
For example, I had been planning for some time to replace my aging
Intel laptop (running Windows NT) with an Apple PowerBook. But I now
wonder if I should wait a year or so until Apple comes out with a
(presumably much better performing) new Intel-based PowerBook.
(After all, the PowerPC G4 is now a dead end for Apple, and there
will certainly now be no G5-based PowerBooks.)
I suspect that many other people will now be having similar
reservations about buying Macs in the near future, especially since
these concerns risk forming a feedback loop, threatening the very
viability of the company.
Ross Finlayson
LIVE.COM
<http://www.live.com/>
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