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For six years, the Internet Nexus served as my technology blog, but I've since started blogging at the SuperSite Blog instead. If you're looking for the blog, please head there. --Paul

Thursday, May 26, 2005

Now, Fortune is corroborating my OS X on Intel report

Add Fortune to the ranks of major business publications that are verifying what I had previous written about Apple's OS X running on Intel hardware:

FORTUNE has learned that Apple, Intel, and several PC companies already have the Mac OS X operating system working on Intel chips in their labs.

OK, that's a little too similar for comfort. I wonder if he learned that from me? :) He does later quote my blog.

If it switched to Intel chips or allowed PC makers to build Intel-based Macs, Apple could benefit from the enormous economies of scale Intel achieves with its dominant market share, and from the x86’s constant advances. Apple could also bring its costs—and possibly its products' prices--down substantially. And that could boost its sales.

Even if the Journal report is right, it could simply mean that the wily Jobs is positioning for the upper hand in negotiations with IBM. He isn't saying anything. Then again, if you were Jobs, wouldn’t you want your legacy to be a company with a 20% market share—or more—rather than one with only 2.3%?

Look, this is an interesting debate, no doubt about it. But again, the only reason I have any stock in this at all is that I had independently broken the story in April and have three separate sources for the information. Will it ever happen? You know what, I hope it does. But just as Apple almost bougth TiVo and then walked away at the last second, anything can happen. That's true now as well.

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