Apple's Colossal Disappointment?

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday July 26, 2005 @09:42AM from the more-a-blunder-than-anything-else dept.

Mudzy writes "Michael Roberson, founder of Linspire, has an article at The TechZone talking about Apple's 'Colossal Disappointment' for not porting Mac OS X to PC after they announced the move to Intel processors. He discuss why this could be a mistake." From the article: "Instead of a brilliant strategic maneuver, it's a step necessitated by IBM's inability to keep pace with Intel. It seems Apple was tired of losing the gigahertz competition to the PC world. Apple had been promising faster computers for some time and had not been able to deliver them. In addition, they were frustrated at IBM's inability to produce a fast low-powered chip for laptops."

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is it really a mistake? by jazzman251 · 2005-07-26 09:45 · Score: 0, Redundant

sure they could sell more copies of os X, but then wouldnt they lose some profits from those who would'nt but their hardware and run it on some other machine?
Re:Why? by Matthew+Weigel · 2005-07-26 10:27 · Score: 0, Redundant

Ummm... what do you know about the reasons behind Apple's strategy, that you can precisely enumerate the reasons?

What makes you think Intel's DRM, and not AMD's supply problems, is the primary reason Apple is skipping AMD? Do you really think that if AMD had DRM capability in its chips, and Intel did not, that Apple would pick AMD?

"Insightful" my ass.

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