One of the things he's missing is how incredibly difficult it would have been to switch processors back then..
It was a huge job for OSX, but the processors at that time were fast enough to handle it...
But trying the same thing, maintaining some level of compatibility, with the CPUs available then???
It would have been possible to write an Intel version of MacOS that was totally incompatible. Then they could have required all the app vendors to port all their apps to the new platform, and with some conversion programs to handle the resource fork bit, they could have had an OS that probably would have been better than Windows at the time...
But I'm still not sure what that would have gained them....
Yes, Intel chips cost less and were getting faster by leaps and bounds.
But that wasn't, and still isn't, the market Apple wanted to compete in. And it would have alienated quite a few of their customers.
It's not like waiting, as they did, for the CPUs (and RAM and other issues) to make it easier has really hurt them. They're doing OK..
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