And a Microsoft Phone would require fixing the trashed registry database or running antivirus software on it
If anyone ever wondered why Apple switched to x86, your reason is sitting right there begging for you to look at it.
Since the point of no return on the ROKR's development, Apple and Motorola have had issues, big ones. That's shown by the delay of their damn phone to market. Shoot, their relationship was already one that had plenty of abuse in the past (The G4 introduction, anyone? The original machines were supposed to be 500MHz and launched at 350!)
IBM had probably never had an interest in making laptop processors, sure desktop/workstation ones no problem, but laptop ones? No that was motorola's job, and Apple has been using the two companies for years anyway, so that was probably how it was going to stay...
Until the ROKR.
Enter the 7448, 8641, and 8641D -- some rather spectacular processors. A 2GHz processor with a 700MHz bus (not too awesome) and the same cache capacity
and wide/short pipeline the G4s had? Sweet.
Until the ROKR.
That stupid little phone put a little war in Apple that killed everything as far as desktop PPCs are concerned. Nope, screw that, just one more problem.
Makes sense, doesn't it? IBM was nothing BUT surprised but Motorola couldn't say anything but bad things about Apple.. I mean what else would you be saying if you just blew off one of your biggest customers by being cocky over a stupid phone?
While Apple was dealing with a company that had no interest in making decent laptop processors and a company that was too cocky to do anything for them, a few intel reps are still kissing Steve Jobs' giant butt.
HELLO Intel!
Ahhh yes finally. Them suckers have been trying to get Apple for years, and then some. They've had a sweet taste of Jobs in the past when NeXTStep almost made it but it was too late..
So they got him and his company now, and Apple today is a far more lucrative offering than NeXT was in the 90s.
