“Hilarious writeup”:http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060110-5940.html dripping with sarcasm on the Apple / Intel lovin’ going on at MWSF today.
Apple opened up something like a million stores, or 135 total, and they will open more in 2006, with 26 million visitors during the holidays, a US$ 5.7 billion quarter. There will be more stores too, including stores in places the average American high-school graduate could not find on a globe, places in far away countries where they may not speak English, but where the universal language of money is understood.
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Finally, Steve got to the hardware, intoning, “We have had a really good year.” As far as the eye can see, there appear to be quarters in which at least a million Macs will be sold, and just over the horizon is Intel—and then it changed to an Event Horizon and the “June of 06″ became now. Paul Otellini was sucked into the RDF and clean-room bunnysuit, showing up on stage as the crowd reached a frenzy of excitement, and possibly a few seizures. The marriage—some say shotgun—was consumated less than a year ago, with over a thousand people working at Intel on the Apple Project. “Don’t be encumbered by history, go out and create something wonderful,” quote Paul. Steve replied, “We want to make the best personal computers in the world, which is why we chose Intel.” Gangster-slap to IBM and Freescale.
Though this doesn’t change the fact that I’m still Apple-whipped six ways to Sunday, I think more reviews about the Mac should be written this way.
