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Offline Matt_HTopic starter

Apple buys PA Semi
« on: April 23, 2008, 10:44:19 PM »
A few sources are reporting this now. This one's via Amiga-news.de.

I'd say this sinks whatever hope was left for Amiga, Inc.'s imaginary machines from last year.

For Apple, though, it looks like a page out of the ol' vertical integration playbook. They were sort of promoting the fact that the iPhone runs a version of OSX, but compatibility advantages are close to nil since the iPhone uses ARM chips. If they switch new models to PPC, suddenly they don't only have a potential data exchange device, but also an application exchange device thanks to the Universal Binary format. A cheap, 100% compatible handheld Mac could be quite the product, especially for Apple fans. Similarly-sized PCs are still in the $1000+ range, and without phone capabilities, if I'm not mistaken.