The biggest mistake Apple could have made!
18/06/05 20:41 Filed in: Software
My thoughts on Steve Jobs WWDC keynote speech.
I guess these sorts of posts where invertible after
Steve Jobs keynote speech last Monday (I've been on
holiday and hence with out internet connection for 2
weeks, so this is the earliest I've been able to
comment)
What is he thinking was my first thought! Why do this? One reason, is that his steveness, was angry that IBM couldn't delver 3 GHz processors when he was told they could. So he went ahead and announced that date.
So he's annoyed that he's been made to look silly. Is this any reason to 'throw out the baby with the bath water?' I don't think so. Since the speech other reasons have been speculated at. Could it be that IBM don't really care any more? Possibly, with their silicon being used in all of the three players in the next gen game consoles, they just don't care enough about the relatively few units they sell to apple. Perhaps this has been forced on Apple?
If this the case then they had no choice, however, if they did then still I ask why?
The power PC architecture is much newer and cleaner that the x86 architecture. It's also been designed with 64 bit in mind right from the start. x86 isn't. The intel processors are much faster in terms of raw hertz, but it's widely believed by many informed people that the pentium 4 was designed to optimise clock speed above all else, including actual performance. The pentium has nothing to offer like the altivec unit in the G5's. Intels processors have much higher heat output per GHz.
I can't see many good things here!
Lower cost is the only good thing coming out this that I can see. But that probably won't happen because almost certainly the new versions on OSX will only run on custom build apple hardware.
One thing I have to add is that I'm not surprised how easy the transfer is. Cocoa was always designed to be a cross platform tool kit and the unix core (darwin) has always been x86 based.
At the beginning of this year I said I though this year would be the year of the mac. I'm not convinced this is the case any more. This could mark the beginning of the end for mac's as we know and love them.
What is he thinking was my first thought! Why do this? One reason, is that his steveness, was angry that IBM couldn't delver 3 GHz processors when he was told they could. So he went ahead and announced that date.
So he's annoyed that he's been made to look silly. Is this any reason to 'throw out the baby with the bath water?' I don't think so. Since the speech other reasons have been speculated at. Could it be that IBM don't really care any more? Possibly, with their silicon being used in all of the three players in the next gen game consoles, they just don't care enough about the relatively few units they sell to apple. Perhaps this has been forced on Apple?
If this the case then they had no choice, however, if they did then still I ask why?
The power PC architecture is much newer and cleaner that the x86 architecture. It's also been designed with 64 bit in mind right from the start. x86 isn't. The intel processors are much faster in terms of raw hertz, but it's widely believed by many informed people that the pentium 4 was designed to optimise clock speed above all else, including actual performance. The pentium has nothing to offer like the altivec unit in the G5's. Intels processors have much higher heat output per GHz.
I can't see many good things here!
Lower cost is the only good thing coming out this that I can see. But that probably won't happen because almost certainly the new versions on OSX will only run on custom build apple hardware.
One thing I have to add is that I'm not surprised how easy the transfer is. Cocoa was always designed to be a cross platform tool kit and the unix core (darwin) has always been x86 based.
At the beginning of this year I said I though this year would be the year of the mac. I'm not convinced this is the case any more. This could mark the beginning of the end for mac's as we know and love them.
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