Or so it seems. Ever since the Apple company announced its move from IBM to Intel to source its processors, the news-wire has been rife with analysis and specualtion as to what it all means.
Walk-Off HBP sent in this one.
So Intel buys Apple and works with their OEMs to get products out in the market. The OEMs would love to be able to offer a higher margin product with better reliability than Microsoft. Intel/Apple enters the market just as Microsoft announces yet another delay in their next generation OS. By the way, the new Apple OS for the Intel Architecture has a compatibility mode with Windows (I'm just guessing on this one).
This scenario works well for everyone except Microsoft. If Intel was able to own the Mac OS and make it available to all the OEMs, it could break the back of Microsoft. And if they tuned the OS to take advantage of unique features that only Intel had, they would put AMD back in the box, too. Apple could return Intel to its traditional role of being where all the value was in the PC world. And Apple/Intel could easily extend this to the consumer electronics world. How much would it cost Intel to buy Apple? Not much. And if they paid in stock it would cost nothing at all since investors would drive shares through the roof on a huge swell of user enthusiasm.
#That's the story as I see it unfolding. Steve Jobs finally beats Bill Gates. And with the sale of Apple to Intel, Steve accepts the position of CEO of the Pixar/Disney/Sony Media Company.
Remember, you read it here first.
Which seems to be the big picture version some are forecasting.
Yahoo News service had this AP piece.
At the same time, Apple would retain as much control as it wants over its software and brand. Beyond the future performance and energy efficiency improvements Intel has promised, Apple could deploy an Intel security scheme that could allow Apple to keep its operating system locked to Macs. Apple also could tap a separate Intel technology that lets multiple operating systems run efficiently on a single chip.
Such advances could be critical for Apple, which has gained a reputation for building innovative and stylish machines that run Apple's own, acclaimed Mac OS X operating system. By not allowing clones, as are common in the Windows world, Apple can still charge a premium and differentiate itself.
After all, the microprocessor may be the brain of a computer, but the soul is provided by the software, which Apple has said will continue to be locked to its systems.
And so on.
How F*cked Up Is North Korea Really?
Here's an article about a deserter from the US Army 'coming home'. In it, I noticed this casual section:
Jenkins now lives on the island of Sado, about 300 km (190 miles) northwest of Tokyo, with Hitomi Soga, 46, the Japanese woman he met and married in North Korea, and their two daughters.
Jenkins was a 24-year-old sergeant when he fled to North Korea in January 1965. He became part of Pyongyang's propaganda machine and married Soga, who had been abducted from her homeland by North Korean agents in 1978 to help train spies.
Soga was allowed to leave North Korea with four other Japanese abductees in 2002.
You wouldn't want to be abducted by the North Koreans I tell you. You wouldn't wish it even upon your worst neighbours...
Come On Guys, What's Going On?
The Yankees hit a new rock bottom today as the St. Louis Cardinals jumped them 8-1.
Furious after a performance he called the low point of the Yankees' dismal season, Torre tore into his players in a meeting after the game. In comments to members of the news media after a brutal 8-1 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals, Torre did not hold back. "I'm just not happy," he said after the Yankees collected three errors and just six hits. "It was an ugly game. We didn't play hard enough. We didn't do anything to help ourselves win. It was an embarrassing, embarrassing game."
Derek Jeter and others said they had never seen Torre as upset as he was after the game. Though he later modified his answer, Jeter seemed as disgusted as Torre at what he had seen. "It seems like we don't care," Jeter said.
Asked if the message would be heard in the clubhouse, the third-base coach, Luis Sojo, who won four World Series rings under Torre, said, "It'd better be, because he never talks like that. I've been here 10 years, and I've never seen him talking like that."
That don't sound too good. So fellas', are we going to play 'Stonehenge' tomorrow night?
- Art Neuro
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