It is the soap opera of technology. The PC wars have been raging for years. Is it Mac or PC? Windows or OSX? Steve Jobs or Bill Gates? As computing converges with home entertainment, the trials get a lot more interesting.
Also, in bringing Intel into the fold for Apple, Dell is now in the sights of Steve Jobs. Their uneasy war of words has heated back up of late.
Nine years ago, Michael Dell said the following of Apple.
More recently Apple surpasses Dell's market value in the stock market and Jobs claims that Michael Dell should eat his nine year-old words. Mac fanatics kneel before their god and giggle at their view from atop this new high.
Speaking of Dell, they are struggling with the fact that low-end PCs don't offer enough profit margin to make the kinds of profit leaps that Dell shareholders are used to. Couple that with the fact that Apple might be poised to capture market-share in more of Dell's markets since they moved to Intel chips, and you have a serious rivalry forming between the two companies.
Article comments
1 - JELIEL³
Then let the format wars begin.
MOre competition drives prices down and promotes innovation. I'm all for it.
2 - Craig Lyndall
I am in favor as well. Maybe it will cause a lot of these comfortable fat companies to get lean and nimble again. That would be good for us all.
3 - Bob
Ummmm Hellloooooo You kind of left off an 88 billion dollar company in HP!
4 - General 3760
IBM and AMD have already teamed up to make chips together... so you'd have AMD, IBM, DELL, and Microsoft vs. Intel and Apple. As for Sony, they have the cell processor with IBM and Toshiba :) So IBM could play two positions on the field to hurt Apple!
5 - HSHeads
Seriously anybody with decent sense and newegg can make there own sick computer, cheap.
Forget all those rich greedy bastards.
6 - Darkyhand
I know for a fact that Microsoft or Dell would want to use anchient, dieing, old technology which is IBM. IBM has been slipping and slipping even farther down the road to death and they will continue, there chips are in no way even close to comparsion to that of Intel or AMD. Dell, HP, Gateway, and Microsoft (if actually all faced a predicamnet to Intel supporting Apples) would give thier full support to AMD. Lastly, Sony will eventually drop out of the computer manufacturing race around 2010, just wait and see.
7 - A concerned reader..
Not to burst the authors bubble about IPOD sticking it to Microsoft, but check out the patents that Microsoft has filed for the IPOD it's not like they are exactly loosing out on this. The article was an interesting read, I would have to certainly agree with the HP comment and would further add that an HP/AMD partnership would be a very formidable competitor.
8 - your mom
this is just dumb, M$ has a bigger fight from sony than they do from apple. ibm doesn't care about apple switching to intel, they where already complaining about the low number of chips apple buys from them. they are in a sweet spot now that their ppc core is used in all 3 nextgen consoles. and don't forget one thing the bigger market share you hold the bigger target you become for the hackers in the shadows, look at firefox. if mac os x becomes more popular more security holes will be found in it.
9 - bill
let them fight for our living room so we can get better and better technology at rockbotom prices