I think this will hurt Apple in the short term, but might be okay in the long term. It'll also be the final nail for the OS4 line. I'm sure Hyperion are smacking their heads for not writing OS4 for the the Intel/AMD chips. Oh well.
Yup. I bet Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony are thinking the same thing. Doh! Apple dumped PPC, our game consoles are doomed! Cisco will surely have to change the CPU used in their networking equipment too! Man, all those companies got royally screwed by Apple!!!
Back to reality... "Huh?" In the grand scheme of things, Apple is a relatively small player in PPC land. They're the publically known one. They're the desktop general purpose computer one. But in terms of number of all PPC chips sold, they're relatively small percentage. Freescale is already moving G4 into embedded systems-centric packaging. IBM is putting their PPCs into game consoles. There is a shift that has been underway already for a long time, yes, but it has been underway for a long time already.
This isn't the end for PPC based Amigas. It's the end for PPC based Macs, which already aren't part of our market. I don't see doom and gloom here. Perhaps easier to get chips. Perhaps new opportunities. But and end of Amiga or Eyetech or Hyperion due to Apple's CPU choices? Nah.
