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About this siteFor 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 Monday, June 06, 2005Leander Kahney attempts to explain Apple on IntelHe just hates it that I have his number. Writing that he refused to be believe the Apple/Intel rumor when it was just me writing about it, Wired Blog writer Leander Kahney makes a bold, but ultimately futile, attempt at explaining away the Apple on Intel migration:At first, it was just too hard to believe, and I dismissed it as nonsense, but two serious news organizations are reporting it as a done deal (News.com and WSJ), and on Sunday morning a couple of things fell into place making it look a lot more plausible.Except, of course, that they're not. They're relying on developers to create "fat binaries" that run on both Intel and Power PC. But it's really about Hollywood: Apple's looking to transform the movie industry the same way the iPod and iTunes changed the music business ... Apple -- or rather, Hollywood -- wants the Pentium D to secure an online movie store (iFlicks if you will), that will allow consumers to buy or rent new movies on demand, over the Internet.Crazy and fascinating, which is a fun combination. However, it's also wrong: Jobs said nothing about the Pentium D's supposed DRM features, which, as it turns out, are completely false anyway. The Intel transition will occur first in the summer with the Mac mini, which I'll bet will become a mini-Tivo-cum-home-server.Actually, it will start in summer 2006. No one said anything about which machines would go Intel first, but given Apple's issues making a PowerBook G5, my guess is that it will be the company's portable computers, not the Mac mini. That's just a guess. But we'll have to wait a year to see how it pans out. [ Posted at 2:55 PM | Permalink ]
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