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Apple's usage of IBM processors was good publicity for IBM's processors - and that was it! A loss of sale of about 1.07 Million processors when they are looking at 150 Million processors (or more) to be sold in their PS3 Series, which by the way is better publicity will easily offset Steve's Defection to the Intel Platform.

Now coming to Steve's Apple - How important a customer is Steve going to be for Intel? In the PC Segment - MACs accounts for less than 5% (read somewhere it is about 2%)of all PC sales. Sure it is a prestigious customer - but will that alone drive Intel to supply the "power" that Steve needs.

To crown everything - the MAC's "Jewel of the Crown" OSx is going to work on only MACs which by the way would be able to run Windows/Linux as well. Is Steve really trying to give the MAC a chance at getting back to selling more units of MAC or is he just killing of all chances of survival.

Apple has been a company that has always beaten the odds. Not many (none that I know of) have survived a "base-processor" shift. They have done it successfuly once before - there is a good chance that it would survive this one as well. The I-pods are selling in plenty numbers, the sad part is Steve's Myopic strategy for the MAC is just preventing the MAC from gaining the numbers that it so easily can if it were to open up its architecture.
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IBM like MOTO  sp29 | 06/09/05
Pure, unadulterated spin  John L. Ries | 06/09/05
IBM  GoPower | 06/09/05
I second that!  polax@... | 06/09/05
IBM is really a foundary, not what Apple needs (or wants)  Prognosticator | 06/10/05
Volume  GoPower | 06/10/05
Makes sense for both sides  tic swayback | 06/09/05
Intel  GoPower | 06/09/05
Big difference  tic swayback | 06/09/05
Also there is AMD...does anyone think that OSX for  Laff | 06/10/05
Really  GoPower | 06/10/05
I have to disagree  tic swayback | 06/10/05
Apple and IBM were partners  GoPower | 06/10/05
Not much of a partnership  tic swayback | 06/11/05
Have to disagree on one point.  ShadeTree | 06/13/05
The idea has lots of appeal  tic swayback | 06/13/05
Whooha In Your Face  Squawkbox | 06/09/05
Yeap  GoPower | 06/09/05
Oh I know  Squawkbox | 06/09/05
Why not  mabricen | 06/09/05
Hmmmm I did not know that  Squawkbox | 06/09/05
Yes..  Patrick Jones | 06/09/05
I wonder then  Squawkbox | 06/09/05
Got it right  mabricen | 06/10/05
MS Trojan Horse  MacCanuck | 06/09/05
Bad Marriage to begin with...  nucrash | 06/09/05
4 million CPU a year.  mabricen | 06/09/05
Slight correction  tic swayback | 06/09/05
I know  mabricen | 06/10/05
But not in the next two years  GoPower | 06/10/05
Not a fan of the way Steve Jobs is handling this  Richard Flude | 06/09/05
I think problems ahead for Apple  hipparchus2000 | 06/10/05
Does that not assume that thngs are going to stay  Laff | 06/10/05
Apple's not in trouble in your scenario  tic swayback | 06/10/05
True  GoPower | 06/10/05
very true, gateway, dell etc have their work cut out for them  hipparchus2000 | 06/10/05
Jobs can be a bitter man  tic swayback | 06/10/05
AIM  Jkirk3279 | 06/14/05
PPC NEVER hung on the desktop  zeusfuse | 06/20/05
Who but a Troll could possibly believe this?  An_Axe_to_Grind | 06/09/05
That's what I wanted to know  John L. Ries | 06/10/05

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