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Dvorak: Apple Will Go Intel in 12-18 Months
By Remy Davison, Insanely Great Mac
March 19th 2003
Columnist declares X-on- Itanium is Apple's strategy.
While Apple prepares to demonstrate IBM's high-octane PowerPC 970 at its Worldwide
Developers' Conference (WWDC), industry pundit John C. Dvorak predicts Apple will, in
fact, move across to Intel processors over the next 12-18 months.
Dvorak claims that Steve Jobs' keynote to an Intel sales conference in January, as
well as the presence of Intel executives at MWSF, provides irrefutable evidence that
Apple plans to go x86. Pixar, Jobs' 'other' company, recently moved to Intel machines,
another piece in the jigsaw puzzle, claims Dvorak.
The column also speculates that Apple will produce a 'transition' machine to bridge
the gulf between PowerPC and x86. Apple will then, supposedly, introduce an
Itanium-based Mac.
Analysis: Ludicrous. This from the same man who declared Apple's 'Switchers' campaign
would be dead and quietly buried by last December. Not so. His suppositions about
Jobs' thinking do not stem from any knowledge or unique insight into the man or his
company either. Jobs said in 1996 - and he was right and he meant it - "the OS wars
are over. Microsoft won". It's a fact that Apple sells predominantly to its existing
user base, and even PowerPC 970 is only likely to shift Apple's market share a few
basis points upwards.
Why would anyone care - particularly - that you can run OS X on Intel? You can run it
on a second-hand eMac for $600 and it performs pretty well. So what? You want to run
x86 OSes and applications? Buy a $200 PC. Or a $500 one. Again, so what? People who
really want both Mac OS and x86 buy both. 96.7% of the others buy x86. Unfortunately,
that's the harsh reality. And Dvorak's speculation about Intel/OS X doesn't change
that.
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