The key is how much does profit does Apple make from it's hardware. So I am not certain at price it becomes feasible for Apple to sell it'OS and other software. I doubt it's feasible for Apple OS X to become a OSS at this time since so much of their revenue is derived from desktops.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Lentvorski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Main Discussion List for KPLUG" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Mac switching to x86? Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 14:35:54 -0700 > > > On Apr 29, 2005, at 11:30 AM, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > > > Randall Shimizu wrote: > > > >> Apple seems fairly committed to the PPC platform. So long as they hold > >> the lead in performance and design I doubt they will change. Apple is > >> company that is highly dependent upon brand equity. > >> > > > > And one that is very good at changing CPU with a minimum of end-user > > issues (m68k to PPC) > > BWHAHAHAHA! Oh, you kill me. <sniff> Sorry. <sniff> I'm much > better now ... > > As someone who worked on the PowerPC development teams at Somerset > when Apple was making that change, I can tell you that the change > did *not* go with a minimum of end user issues. In fact, it had > so many issues that we had to respin the 603 into the 603e in > order to cover for many of those issues. > > There really is no particularly good reason for Apple to switch > from PowerPC, and, in fact, the lower power consumption of the > PowerPC line is a good reason *not* to change. > > The only advantage to moving to x86 would be to get better > *chipset* support. And, they could do that by actually paying one > of the Taiwanese chipset manufacturers to do theirs, too. > > -a > > > -- [email protected] > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
