What does the future hold?
I contributed this little tidbit in an article following a MacNET2.com article on the future path of the Mac OS. The article and the following comments were all revolving around the thought of a possible release of OS X on Intel processors because of a comment Steve Jobs had dropped casually in an interview with Fortune about being approached by 3 PC manufacturers to license the operating system because of complaints people had about the vulnerability of Windows --- and they were looking for possible alternatives.
Everyone seemed to be ignoring the largest speculation, in my opinion, and then a poster designated as Mcloki brought up the recently announced Cell proscessor.
I wrote: "Thank you Mcloki for being the first to bring up the Cell processor in this whole discussion. I agree that the x86 port isn't a good idea but not so much for the considerations expressed here so far, but because that technology is history. Apple has never been one to look back, or even at the now, they always see it coming before anyone else does. If the Cell processor is as good as it's said to be, then Intel's reign is done. And it's conveniently based on PowerPC and not tied to a specific operating system. Now the discussion I've seen about the Steve Jobs quote just says that 3 PC manufacturers were speaking to him, but nothing about x86. And interesting that there are 3 developers of the Cell processor that all have a PC manufacturing segment: Sony (on-stage with Jobs exciting the rumor mill with where that is going), Toshiba (happily making as much Flash memory as it possibly can to handle the demand for the Shuffle), and IBM (granted it looks like they've sold off their PC business, but how convenient to get rid of their Wintel operation on the eve of something like this perhaps). Just enough stuff floating around right now to make a person connect the dots and say Hmmmmmmmmmmm."
Any thoughts, anyone?
And does anyone have any details as to when the iPod announcement is going to happen today?
Everyone seemed to be ignoring the largest speculation, in my opinion, and then a poster designated as Mcloki brought up the recently announced Cell proscessor.
I wrote: "Thank you Mcloki for being the first to bring up the Cell processor in this whole discussion. I agree that the x86 port isn't a good idea but not so much for the considerations expressed here so far, but because that technology is history. Apple has never been one to look back, or even at the now, they always see it coming before anyone else does. If the Cell processor is as good as it's said to be, then Intel's reign is done. And it's conveniently based on PowerPC and not tied to a specific operating system. Now the discussion I've seen about the Steve Jobs quote just says that 3 PC manufacturers were speaking to him, but nothing about x86. And interesting that there are 3 developers of the Cell processor that all have a PC manufacturing segment: Sony (on-stage with Jobs exciting the rumor mill with where that is going), Toshiba (happily making as much Flash memory as it possibly can to handle the demand for the Shuffle), and IBM (granted it looks like they've sold off their PC business, but how convenient to get rid of their Wintel operation on the eve of something like this perhaps). Just enough stuff floating around right now to make a person connect the dots and say Hmmmmmmmmmmm."
Any thoughts, anyone?
And does anyone have any details as to when the iPod announcement is going to happen today?
posted by Will at 11:56 AM
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