Re:So what happens after the move to Intel? (Score 1)

Soon to come: sub $800 iBooks and $450 mid sized desktop cases built from good hardware at a good price with a good OS. That also run more software, since software makers will have an eaisier job of making their stuff portable.

Soon to come: The death of OS X specific coding, if they actually allow Windows applications to run natively. Assume for a moment that they achieve Rosetta-like compatibility and keep a reasonable speed for most applications. What, then, is the incentive for a large developer like Adobe to write separate version of their software when you can just run it in the emulation layer?

Also, as I'm sure has been pointed out here innumerable times, Apple would have to make one hell of a leap in software sales to make up for lost hardware if the OS is opened to commodity PC hardware. It's not like they were losing 30-40% of their marketshare back during the PowerPC cloning da... Oh, they were, weren't they?

Contrary to what many people claim, Apples largest revenue stream is still their hardware, and not iPods.