Wall Street Journal - Apple Eyes Shifting Macintosh Line To Intel Chips

The Wall Street Journal ^ | June 4, 2005 | DON CLARK and NICK WINGFIELD

[Golden Eagle]

Yeah, if I were Steve I wouldn't be trusting Adobe and Microsoft one bit.

Well apparently he trusts them more than IBM. So would I at this point.

[Petronski]

"The biggest problem was deciding what we were going to do for the weekend" or something similar was the quote.

Bravado aside, that's probably not much of an exaggeration (as I've been reading, anyway).

[D-fendr]

MS is no longer developing IE for OS X.

v5.x was the last.

[D-fendr]

Word and PowerPoint are not that great a products - Excel either for that matter. Biggest problem is migrating/converting. The firms that integrate the whole mess with calendar/email are probably lost, yet OS X has a pretty darn good networked calendar.

[Swordmaker]

That would be my guess as well. Jobs said the Mathmatica app took about 5 days. "The biggest problem was deciding what we were going to do for the weekend" or something similar was the quote.

The owner of the company that publishes "Mathematica" stated that it actually took only TWO HOURS, 20 lines of code out of millions, to convert Mac PowerPC Mathematica to Mac Intel Mathematica... and the hardest part was figuring out what they were "going to do with the rest of the weekend."

[N3WBI3]

Linux has seen some success because it runs on relatively inexpensive x86 boxes.

While Linux might have grown because of that it is now an enterprise level OS with better support from Oracle, BEA, Veritas, VMWare, and others. Linux will be no more hurt by this move in the near and mid terms than say Solaris. Nobody was setting up a server for a business and said well I would love to go with an X-Serve but I want to save a hundred bucks or so (apples server hardware is no much more than Dell) so Im going with a completely different OS.

[Golden Eagle]

Blah blah blah, Microsoft products suck no matter that 90% of people use them, blah blah blah.

[Golden Eagle]

Hardly an equal comparison, I don't see frothy mouthed fanatics all over the net pushing Solaris for the home use desktop, but I see it everywhere for Linux. Third place will be nowheresville for either Linux or OSX in the long term, and according to 2 respected analysts today, Linux is the one who just took a punch to the gut.

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1824810,00.asp

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7BD0E8469A-28FC-415D-9281-C97B5FA2CA3D%7D&siteid=mktw&dist=

Add to that the fact that multiple sources are reporting a slowdown in Linux across the board. People are getting wise to your tricks, not near as dumb as you thought.

http://www.techweb.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=164300346#_

According to this article, Novell might even start pulling the plug on their investments in open source. Spin it however you want. it's not a pretty picture at all.

http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/stories/2005/06/06/story4.html

[D-fendr]

Heck, I use them. I use a lot of other applications too. And comparatively, Microsoft doesn't make that great applications.

I haven't used their development tools, and I've heard quite a few developers speak highly of them, so maybe that's their forte.

[John Valentine]

I guess I now know why you picked your very appropriate handle. My comment wasn't bigoted, it was an opinion that is informed and cogent, unlike yours.

[Leonard210]

Hi cRazYDaVe. Good to see you again. You made an extremist statement, now childish generalizations. What's up your bum? We're talkin about computers. There are those who are interested in the tech specs, and those who use them to accomplish some task. You are making unthinking assumptions about folks you don't know. I don't think Apple is cool. But I do believe Windows is a nigjhtmare in some aspects. Security is one of them. Is it Windows bad instruction set that makes it so vulnerable? If it is, why rag on Apple? You're a behind the scenes guy. You program. Fine. I don't care about the specifications of the lug-nuts. I simply want to know that they'll hold the wheels on the car and how to remove them when the tire goes flat. I suppose that's "Neanderthal" in your extreme world.