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Apple Switching to Intel
Steve Jobs announced at the WWDC keynote today that Apple is switching to Intel processors. MacNN has live coverage. The bottom line is that Mac OS X for the last five years has been running on Intel, the switch is expected to be complete in two years, and Rosetta will allow PPC apps to run on Intel-based Macs, transparently. If you're using Xcode, it is small changes and a recompile; otherwise, you might be seeing a lot of work ahead of you. You will be able to order the 10.4.1 preview for Intel today.
It's an ideological shift because for years the Mac Zealots have pulled the Apple line about why the PPC is superior to x86. Now they are forced to admit that PPC was a mistake.
Jobs is famous for his ego so I admire his willingness to own up to this instead of continuing to stubbornly push the PPC.
Perhaps the Mac crowd will become the ultimate DRM apologists, claiming, with some credibility, that Mac couldn't survive if it didn't have TC/DRM involved.
Prior to iTunes and the iTunes store, almost every poster here agreed that DRM is pure dag nasty evil period, end of story, will boycott any vendor, etc. Once a few of us toked on the iTunes crack pipe, DRM suddenly became okay for quite a few people here. "Oooooooooohh shiney!". "This is reasonable DRM.... Don't beat up on Apple or the DRM will get even worse...." etc. etc. ad nauseatingly.
It all goes to show that the Reality Distortion Field is working just peachy. You're probably correct that we are about to see a lot more Apple inspired DRM apologists.
Using DRM for such is largely unnecessary anyway. Look at how long it takes for Linux and the BSDs to get drivers sometimes. Apple is only going to support their chipsets and will probably go after anyone who starts running "Darwin Driver" projects that let OS X out of the Apple cage.