Apple, Scully, And Intel vs. Motorola

Posted by timothy on Sunday October 12, 2003 @08:32PM from the unduly-harsh-on-his-mellow dept.

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?"

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Re:Ridiculous article by hype7 · 2003-10-12 21:13 · Score: 3, Informative

This is all so one-sided. Let's all talk instead about what would have happened, had Apple switched to the X86 architecture, shall we?

I think you're spot on.

There's an exceptional counter-argument to Sculley's regret over at El Reg, entitled "Sculley explains how he missed the chance to trash Apple". I think that pretty much sums it up.

-- james