Apple confirmed our fears today by announcing that they are to screw us over by shifting architecture once again. They want to become cheap and nasty PC boxshifters of the kind many of us have been trying to avoid. I’m annoyed.
While it makes perfect sense from their business point of view (most customers don’t care what’s in the box, just how good the box looks), I used to think there was something special about Apple having a hand in the processor design, platform architecture – the whole hardware stack – which lent itself towards them producing superior kit. Now, I’m afraid it’ll all be cheap whitebox trash within five years. I might be wrong, I hope I am.
So, one last Powerbook to go before that’s it. Better keep two around, just in case.
Jon.