The Intel Transition: A Rush to Market!
July 4th, 2006In the scheme of things, Apple has done some incredible work over the years in making major system transitions. First it was the adoption of the PowerPC, beginning in 1994, and the various and sundry work developers had to do to make their products “native.” Of course the migration to Mac OS X, with the public beta reaching your hands in September of 2000, represented a similar disruption.
The latest major processor and programming shift, to Intel and Universal applications, seems to have gone off a lot better than many predicted. Steve Jobs promised that the move to Intel would be complete by the end of 2007, but some industry pundits suggested it would take longer. Of course, Apple flummoxed the pundits yet again by converting roughly 80 to 85% of its sales to Intel-based computers within less than a year.
