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June 16, 2005

The Red Tiger Jumped Over the Yellow Dog

[Redlobo.com] Apple has done it again. It has shocked the world again by saying it will phase out their PowerPC microprocessors and start using Intel’s i386 chips...

Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.

[The LambCutlet Disorganisation] This whole “Apple letting Intel into it’s knickers” thing”¦: to the over 3,800 developers attending CEO Steve Jobs’ keynote address. Apple also announced the availability of a Developer Transition Kit, consisting of an Intel-based Mac development system along with preview versions of Apple’s software, which will allow developers to prepare versions of their applications which will run on both PowerPC and Intel-based Macs.

[Bytebot.net] colin charles blog: So, the venerable Steve Jobs said Apple is switching to Intel from PowerPC, which he summed up nicely: “Remember, you all develop on this platform not because of the underlying architecture, but because OS X is just so good". Okay, that might’ve just been a little paraphrased, but the audience in general were all very gusto.

[Theappleblog.com] The Apple Blog » Boolean Searches in Spotlight: One might well wonder why Apple couldn’t make this functionality a little more accessible, say by allowing all caps ORs and NOTs in Spotlight queries instead of these rather obscure bracketed syntaxes. There is some suggestion that it is due to boolean searching’s not yet being fully implemented, hence the decision to keep the functionality “hidden”.

[Lambcutlet.org] The LambCutlet Disorganisation: to the over 3,800 developers attending CEO Steve Jobs’ keynote address. Apple also announced the availability of a Developer Transition Kit, consisting of an Intel-based Mac development system along with preview versions of Apple’s software, which will allow developers to prepare versions of their applications which will run on both PowerPC and Intel-based Macs.

[Msnblog.stuffplug.com] Messenger Blog » Blog Archive » Mac users: stop whining!: NOW we have Tiger! I wish that there was a windows os that held a candle to a mac. ... Intel made a business decision a long time ago that binaries compiled ...

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Posted at June 16, 2005 09:40 AM

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