Mac OS X runs fine on Intel. Steve Jobs is NOT a snakeoil salesman.
Mac OS X STARTED on Intel chips (well 68k, then Intel) !!! It was
originally called "NeXTSTEP" and ran on 68k hardware made buy NeXT
Computer (similar to the original Macs). It was ported to Intel in
1993. It ran just fine. NeXT then ported the entire OS as "Openstep" to
Sun, HP, and continued Intel. All apps worked just fine. Apple
purchased NeXT and began porting the OS to PPC. That is what you are
now running on current Macs. A PPC version (basically) of Openstep. It
has gotten a lot better in the years since Apple did the port.
Meanwhile, in the Apple labs, they continued to keep the Intel version
on par with the PPC version as Steve said "Just in case". Well, guess
what? Every app Apple has released has been Intel compliant (Xcode).
It's all ready to go. It's been ready to go!
You act as if this is something brand new. IT IS NOT NEW!! In fact,
the OS has existed much, much longer on Intel than on PPC! There's no
question the apps will run (if they were done using XCode). It's all
new names (Universal Binaries, etc.) but it's all the same old thing
that has been done a number of times before. Market share? Well OS 9 is
dead. It's been dead for 5 years now. There is no market share for new
purchases of that OS. Mac OS X (NeXTSTEP) has done nothing but grow the
market share over the last 5 years since Apple released it.
Each time there has been a transition onto a new chip, the OS has
gotten better and better. The OS is great, the apps are great. A new
chip is the least of Apple's worries.
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