Comment Three possibilities... (Score 1) 1427
1) they are actually licensing OS X to intel manufacturers
which is a ballsy move, but quite doable. Some serious risk of losing the high end to a bunch of cloners on the low end, but with the ITMS revenue stream to buoy them it's a good time step up. That would be the full court press on longhorns debatable or at best irrelevant release.
2) it's some sort of new device that uses intel chips (tablet, phone, or magic marker) like the patent designs of late. This is probably most likely since Ars is pointing out that they just extended an offer to hardware (zaurus and nokia) hacker Pavel Machek
3) it's complete subterfuge so Jobs can keep his real surprise which is to announce the iTunes Music store is now the iTunes Media store. Begin your downloading now.
The cnet article for all it's authoritative stance is really just the same tired rumors. The work involved in making an outright switch would be huge, not to mention the work of trying to convince developers to invest in all new hardware... (you can have my PPC Powerbook when you can pry it from my cold dead fingers..) If they did switch it'd be to AMD's Opteron anyway not Intel. The rumors will definitely kick up the stock price though.. if you bought today.. sell on monday because it will shoot up and then crash when people figure out that, no they are not switching to Intel.
which is a ballsy move, but quite doable. Some serious risk of losing the high end to a bunch of cloners on the low end, but with the ITMS revenue stream to buoy them it's a good time step up. That would be the full court press on longhorns debatable or at best irrelevant release.
2) it's some sort of new device that uses intel chips (tablet, phone, or magic marker) like the patent designs of late. This is probably most likely since Ars is pointing out that they just extended an offer to hardware (zaurus and nokia) hacker Pavel Machek
3) it's complete subterfuge so Jobs can keep his real surprise which is to announce the iTunes Music store is now the iTunes Media store. Begin your downloading now.
The cnet article for all it's authoritative stance is really just the same tired rumors. The work involved in making an outright switch would be huge, not to mention the work of trying to convince developers to invest in all new hardware... (you can have my PPC Powerbook when you can pry it from my cold dead fingers..) If they did switch it'd be to AMD's Opteron anyway not Intel. The rumors will definitely kick up the stock price though.. if you bought today.. sell on monday because it will shoot up and then crash when people figure out that, no they are not switching to Intel.
