Once I get my new powerbook, I plan to write a lot more for this blog. Sorry for being so quiet.
I'll also have time to kill in Adelaide where I'll be for the next month working. Knowing my luck, I'm going to meet the love of my life down there and I'll be like desperately needing - in the lindsay lohan desperately needs to put back on some weight way - to stay on some deep-emotional-connection-you-are-my-destiny-like level. Ergh.
PS... Here's my brief commentary on the MacTel thing:
Apple has had a version of the Mac OS running on Intel hardware since AT LEAST System 7. As other's pointed out, Rhapsody and (probably) Copland had x86 builds. Hell, if they bought BeOS, Apple would've been x86 a long time ago. Marklar has been a very public secret. Apple's made no attempts to deny it. In fact, Darwin's dual-platformness was evidence enough.
Three years ago (or so), Steve made a very pointed comment that OS X and Cocoa (in particular) allowed them be 'platform independent'. This was picked up by the press as evidence of 'Apple moving to Intel' rather than Apple encouraging developers to move away from Carbon and Codewarrior to Coca and greater abstraction (ie portability)
CoreImage itself is about moving processing *away* from Altivec into the more powerful, widely developed and generic architecture's of GPUs.
Apple itself has abandoned niche technology like ADB, SCSI and more recently Firewire800 in favour of implementing, very well, industry standard technology. WiFi isn't niche nor is Bluetooth, but Apple simpy do it better than any other vendor IMNSHO. This they will continue to do when they move to Intel.
The history of Apple and, indirectly, NextStep (which Apple v2.0 owes a huge debt) show that the intel-switch isn't really a revolution but an evolution... perhaps even inevitable, really given the later years of NextStep. That they chose "x86" (in a broad sense) is interesting but that Apple had to move at some point to a new architecture is unsurprising. Do you still want to be using PowerPCs in 10 years?
As for the Osborne effect... I haven't checked my figures recently, but Apple had more *cash Reserves* than was Gateway's market cap. Hell, they had enough cash reserve to buy themselves out (compared to their then market cap) Weathering the storm isn't a huge problem, at the very least the iPod will see them out.
May there be interest times ahead.
I'll also have time to kill in Adelaide where I'll be for the next month working. Knowing my luck, I'm going to meet the love of my life down there and I'll be like desperately needing - in the lindsay lohan desperately needs to put back on some weight way - to stay on some deep-emotional-connection-you-are-my-destiny-like level. Ergh.
PS... Here's my brief commentary on the MacTel thing:
Apple has had a version of the Mac OS running on Intel hardware since AT LEAST System 7. As other's pointed out, Rhapsody and (probably) Copland had x86 builds. Hell, if they bought BeOS, Apple would've been x86 a long time ago. Marklar has been a very public secret. Apple's made no attempts to deny it. In fact, Darwin's dual-platformness was evidence enough.
Three years ago (or so), Steve made a very pointed comment that OS X and Cocoa (in particular) allowed them be 'platform independent'. This was picked up by the press as evidence of 'Apple moving to Intel' rather than Apple encouraging developers to move away from Carbon and Codewarrior to Coca and greater abstraction (ie portability)
CoreImage itself is about moving processing *away* from Altivec into the more powerful, widely developed and generic architecture's of GPUs.
Apple itself has abandoned niche technology like ADB, SCSI and more recently Firewire800 in favour of implementing, very well, industry standard technology. WiFi isn't niche nor is Bluetooth, but Apple simpy do it better than any other vendor IMNSHO. This they will continue to do when they move to Intel.
The history of Apple and, indirectly, NextStep (which Apple v2.0 owes a huge debt) show that the intel-switch isn't really a revolution but an evolution... perhaps even inevitable, really given the later years of NextStep. That they chose "x86" (in a broad sense) is interesting but that Apple had to move at some point to a new architecture is unsurprising. Do you still want to be using PowerPCs in 10 years?
As for the Osborne effect... I haven't checked my figures recently, but Apple had more *cash Reserves* than was Gateway's market cap. Hell, they had enough cash reserve to buy themselves out (compared to their then market cap) Weathering the storm isn't a huge problem, at the very least the iPod will see them out.
May there be interest times ahead.
posted by stu willis at
11:18 pm
3 Comments:
stu that was a great post.
david
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Anonymous, at Fri June 24, 07:19:00 pm AEST
Er, which David was this? :)
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stu willis, at Mon June 27, 01:44:00 pm AEST
David Koresh
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Anonymous, at Thu June 30, 04:33:00 pm AEST
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