Clarification: Steve Jobs and OS X on Intel

[alex_ant]

Originally posted by TechLarry
In other words, he doesn't see the problem.

My goodness, we ARE truly in trouble 🙁

Mr. Jobs needs to understand, quickly, that his RDF is shrinking rapidly, and some of us are not getting sucked in by it any more.

x86 is kicking the PPC's Ass, and as Apple customers we'll never get relief until the Man himself 'gets it'.

Oh, he gets it alright. He can do one of two things, though:

1) He can go public and say, "Hey, I know x86 systems eat our top-of-the-line Power Macs for lunch, but go out and buy them anyway, because they're all shiny and stuff and they're only $3000." And watch as exactly seven Power Mac systems are sold in North America during Q4 2002.

2) He can have Apple Marketing squeeze every last drop out of the G4, because it will be 9-12 months (my estimate) before the G5 arrives, and unless he wants sales to plummet, that's really the only option.

The G5 IS coming. Steve knows he can't make anything but a vague reference to better things down the line, though, because that would kill current sales. He will have to weigh killing current sales by spilling the beans vs. killing current sales by not ensuring a strong PPC future and having users jump ship left and right.

Alex

 

[astrocity20]

Perhaps they're better off just letting the G4 run to its limit so they have more time to think what the hell they're going to do about processor speeds, not to mention Macs install base as a whole. As others have said x86 isn't the way to go because they're milking it until they can switch to 64 bit. I dunno if PPC and OS X is 64 bit or not, but if they aren't they should try to plan to make the switch somewhat sooner than M$ and Intel so they can get the jump on them.