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Re: APPLE leave IBM......
« on: September 06, 2005, 07:10:59 PM »
Amiga Inc. doesn't make or sell hardware. What can they do to make up for the few million chips per year that Apple bought?

What would be needed, if anything indeed is needed at all, is for others like Eyetech, Troika, Olegil, etc. to design using an IBM chip, but the few hundred or perhaps thousand or 2 thousand units that could be sold to Amigans would still never even begin to make any difference at all compared to Apple's quantities, and Apple honestly was relatively small percentage of PowerPC orders in general.

Both IBM and Freescale have made comments that they are not concerned about losing Apple as that loss isn't significant enough to bring down their own businesses, which they claim are by far dominated by the embedded systems industry. Wheter that's just PR babble or die-hard druth is up to you to decide for yourself in believing it or not, but no one seems to be particularly concerned that this situation is even a problem to be made up for.
Bill T
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