In other news, Chicken Little reports the sky is falling.
Why does everyone think this is such a horrible thing? The more I consider it, the more I like it. Why?
1) I trust Steve. At least to a point. He's done a good job guiding Apple so far, and I know he wouldn't make this move without significant forethought.
2) If OS X becomes available to run on any x86 box, it will be by planning. Sure, hacks may come out, but I think Apple has thought a lot of this through and will make it either difficult and/or expensive to do, therefore discouraging the general public from doing it themselves.
3) If OS X becomes available on just any old x86 box, MS will be pissed, naturally, but I think that opens Apple up to truly grow the value portion of their business - software. Yeah, the hardware's cool, and they'll continue to build it for some time to come, but how many people would love to buy a cheap box but still be able to run a prime-time OS on it? I just hope they don't become another Microsoft.