New and Noteworthy: Apple/Intel speculation round-up, Transitive?; Ground Rules for the Windows-Mac War - CNET
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Hollywood Orders: Apple Wed Intel Wired News, meanwhile, speculates that the Apple/Intel alliance may be fueled by digital movie ambitions. Leander Kahney writes "At first, it was just too hard to believe, and I dismissed it as nonsense, but two serious news organizations are reporting it as a done deal (News.com and WSJ), and on Sunday morning a couple of things fell into place making it look a lot more plausible. A chesslike gambit The New York Times calls a potential partnership between Apple and Intel "a chesslike gambit in a broader industry turf war that pits the traditional personal computer industry against an emerging world of consumer electronics focused on the digital home." IBM is proceeding at a decent clip with its processor development (on the PowerPC, Cell and Power server fronts), and Apple is gaining at least modest market share. Apples third-party developers have toiled for half a decade on Mac OS X for PowerPC; asking them to make another sea change for Intel-based apps seems like a tall order.
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