Apple, Scully, And Intel vs. Motorola

fsharp writes "I've heard too many comments suggesting that Apple should have moved to Intel (x86). The Register has an article exploring John Scully's recent comments about his failure to move the Mac to x86. Scully critiques his decisions based entirely on hindsight, and in doing so, identifies Dell as a the chief competitor and the way Apple could have slayed this evil dragon would have been to move to Intel early on in his tenure. Not so fast. Hindsight can be 20/20, however it can also be quite myopic if one suffers from selective memory. The article does a good job of examining the options available at the time when Apple rewrote the MacOS for the Intel x86. How safe a bet or great a risk would it have been for Apple to switch, given the quality of chips offered (at that time) from Intel?"

Comments

Re:Apple for x86!

[Anonymous Coward]

Dear Ryan,

See you court.

Regards,
Apple's lawyers.

Scully but no Moulder

[Anonymous Coward]

...makes for boring OS-X files.

Hahahahaha I'll be here all week.

I really hope Apple won't ever port OS X to x86!

[Anonymous Coward]

Really!

For me Apple has the best hardware, best designs, best OS.
This won't be true anymore if they have to deal with every x86 hardware. And I prefer they tweak the OS for a few hardware configs (including mine) than spend their time working on configs I don't even care of. Plus, PPC is better. We forgot that because of Motorola but IBM will remind it to us, starting now.

And even if Apple have to go x86 one day, i'm sure they won't make Os X (or XI, XII...) open to every hardware.
They are an hardware vendor first!

One thing I really don't understand is why everybody always forget that Apple IS profitable?
They have to increase their market share a little, not change everything. And that's what they are doing now.

Have you really looked at a G5 or a PowerBook? Why would we want something else to put OS X on? "Cause it's cheaper"? Is that it? Won't you ever understand that you DON'T have a Porsche for the price of a Nissan? And i know that some Nissans can be faster (or whatever) than Porsches, so what?

If you want one and don't have enough money to buy a mac, find a good job or steal it. And if you don't like macs or don't want to spend that money, or think that Apple should blah blah blah: Why don't you leave us alone? Use you ugly OS on your ugly box and LEAVE US ALONE!

Re:Apple for x86!

[troc]

Yeah but they are all much better than Apple's iApps - they all start with a K which is, as we all know, much better than an i. It's upper case AND further down the alphabet.

Not as good as zsh though or Zmodem. :)

Troc