[X4U] Apple's move to Intel chips

[T.L. Miller]

On 6/7/05, at 12:01 AM, Lars Bertelsen, <lbe at mac.com> said:

>b) If he does see Apple as a hardware company, 
>wheter he feels threatened by the cheaper PC 
>hardware...
>Consider the iMac G5. This is such a different 
>design that it might easily have done well in the 
>market, even if it were a PC running Windows.
>
>One might argue that there will always be a small 
>hardcore group of people willing to pay a premium 
>price for a piece of hardware as long as  it is 
>labeled "Apple" and is really cool in it's own 
>right, simply because it is better designed than 
>anything else out there.

This is a no-brainer. Rest assured that Apple is not willing to shrink
to a little company making software that they hope will run reliably on
assorted Dells, Sonys and HPs. 

Tom Miller
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