Apple Engineers Wanted To Switch To Intel Chips Even Before Steve Jobs Return

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Hope this isn't a repost...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/brianca...-before-steve-jobs-returned/?partner=yahootix

From that article, I stumbled across the video at the bottom (also at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2C2oCsrqcM&feature=player_embedded). It was done recently by the Churchill Club (http://transition.churchillclub.org/eventDetail.jsp?EVT_ID=926).

Speakers:
Bill Atkinson, member of original Macintosh team at Apple; creator of QuickDraw, MacPaint, HyperCard
Jean-Louis Gassée, Spent 10 years at Apple, in France and then in Cupertino as head of Macintosh product development. Now a venture investor at Allegis Capital
Andy Hertzfeld, Developer on original Macintosh team, now a software engineer at Google
Regis McKenna, High tech marketing guru who worked with Jobs and Apple during its formative years
Deborah Stapleton, Handled the investor relations and public relations programs for Pixar until shortly before the company was bought by Disney
Larry Tesler, former VP of Advanced Technology and Chief Scientist at Apple

Moderator:
Paul Freiberger, Wrote about Silicon Valley during the early years of the personal computer revolution; Principal, Cue Communications

Steve Jobs gave the world the Macintosh, iPod, iPhone, iPad, Pixar -- and defined a whole generation of personal technology through his creativity and achievement in technology innovation. Join us for this special program as colleagues and friends of Jobs share what he meant to them, and how his unique personal approach can continue to inspire us.

Prior to the above, I didn't know there was a video of what I'm guessing is the entire panel/talk (I haven't watched it yet).

I'd only seen http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/the-s...s-in-1996-video/63196?tag=mantle_skin;content and http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/parc-...ox-visits-video/63203?tag=mantle_skin;content.

People who have been following the Mac for a long time should recognize many of the above names.

 

[roadbloc]

Of course they did. The benefits would have made it more than worthwhile.