Re: Apple's ways

[Roy Miller <millers@inebraska.com>]

Supertimer wrote:

>
> An Apple-Intel partnership simply won't work because there
> will be resistance not only from the Apple side but also the
> Intel side which has a relationship of mutual blackmail with
> Microsoft not to mention several key PC makers.

As a matter of fact, Intel would have loved to have such a partnership, and
might very well STILL like to have that partnership. An Apple-Intel team had
a rough port of MacOS to a 486 early in the 90's, but the switch to the
PowerPC killed that idea. Intel doesn't like having Microsoft control the
future of their chips, which is one reason they like Linux. If Apple
switched to the Intel platform, or at least ported to the Intel platform,
I'm sure Intel would drop a ton of money on the project, as it would: 1)
expand the market for Intel chips, 2) give Microsoft less control over
Intel's future

AS for Motorola, as the news this week revealed, they may sell or spin off
the chip division, as it isn't pulling it's weight. IBM may buy the
division, or, AMD might. In either case, now it the time for Apple to decide
to either add the X86 platform, or move closer to IBM, or both.

Roy