p2pnet - rss feed: Apple dumps IBM for Intel
p2pnet.net News:- “Yes, it’s true. We are transitioning from PowerPC to Intel processors.”
Thus spake Apple boss Steve Jobs at the company’s Worldwide Developer Conference which opened today in San Francisco.
And so ends the speculation that’s been rife on the web since the Wall Street Jourmal first leaked news of the possibility.
Will Apple now sue the WSJ and others for revealing a ‘trade secret’ well before Steve Jobs had officially announced it?
That’s how he dealt with AppleInsider, Think Secret and PowerPage for doing exactly the same thing.
Meanwhile, Jobs said Apple will be shipping Intel-powered Macs in mid-2006, with higher-end machines following a year later, as has already been widely revealed in various reports.
“Jobs said Apple was disappointed with IBM’s inability to deliver faster versions of its PowerPC chips or low-power models for notebooks,” Wired News quotes him as saying.
“As we look ahead, we envision some amazing products for you, but we can’t envision how we are going to do that with IBM.”
So much for Jobs’ frequent raves about the wonders of Macs powered by PowerPC chips.
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Wired News - Jobs Drops Da Intel Bomb, June 6, 2005
trade secret - Apple loves Intel, p2pnet, June 6, 2005
June 7th, 2005 at 1:40 pm
Jobs is a moron, 1st to “save” Apple he sucks Gates’ small dick (only because M$ was facing true monopoly problems…) and now he jumps into that lame x86 monopoly. Who’s gonna buy an x86 Apple twice the price ?
Anti-trust laws have failed again to protect humanity from those stalinian corporations.
June 7th, 2005 at 2:03 pm
from Wired: they think it’s to satisfy Hollywood’s lust for a DRM’d locked-down environment, so folks will have to do what they are told with movies:
But why would Apple do this? Because Apple wants Intel’s new Pentium D chips.
Released just few days ago, the dual-core chips include a hardware copy protection scheme that prevents “unauthorized copying and distribution of copyrighted materials from the motherboard,” according to PC World.
Apple — or rather, Hollywood — wants the Pentium D to secure an online movie store (iFlicks if you will), that will allow consumers to buy or rent new movies on demand, over the internet. . . .
And that’s why the whole Mac platform has to shift to Intel. Consumers will want to move content from one device to another — or one computer to another — and Intel’s DRM scheme will keep it all nicely locked down.