Kind of like Motorola putting out great CPUs but always 'later' than Intel/AMD, thus x86 ate their lunch too, and Motorola building all sorts of other stuff intel never did, distracting them from a CPU-focus.
maybe I'm just wack but Intel is keeping the pockets full from non-processor revenue (not saying that they don't earn from their cpu division) doing all sorts of wierd hardware dev. AMD lives from its flash memory and network business, and Motorola from its communication business.
so what's bad in mot delivering cpus after x86?
mot tried to build a apple compat PPC machine, but apple didn't want it so they fired an entire plant. even apple is bickering about G5 i/o transport methods. no wonder they wont develop bleeding edge hw, when noone supports them all the way.
we need the amiga :-)
