OT: RE: Apple Goes Intel...

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Steve Jobs has considerably more enablement with the success and revenues 
from iPod and iTunes.  He's out to show Gates what a innovative successful 
company can really do...




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From: "Eric Smith" <eric at brouhaha.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 9:29 PM
Subject: Re: OT: RE: Apple Goes Intel...


> Jules wrote:
>> Has there been any word from Apple employees about feelings within the
>> company about this?
>
> Yes.  The ones that are being laid off as a result of this are rather
> unhappy.  This includes ASIC designers, sustaining engineers, and
> various others.
>
> I don't understand the people that are bitching about Apple giving up
> the "secret sauce" that makes the Mac unique.  The secret sauce is
> MacOS, and they're not giving that up.  To a normal user, the brand
> name of the CPU inside the box makes no difference.
>
> What amazes me is that Apple didn't figure this out and switch a lot
> sooner.
>
>