Are Apple and Intel merging to take on Microsoft?
In his latest column, Robert Cringely has an interesting take on the Apple/Intel news mania. The article poses five questions: “What happened to the PowerPC’s supposed performance advantage over Intel?”; “What happened to Apple’s 64-bit operating system?”; “Where the heck is AMD?”; “Why announce this chip swap a year before it will even begin for customers?”; and “Is this all really about Digital Rights Management?” In the final analysis, Cringely’s conclusion is that it is all about Microsoft.
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