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From: "Bjorn Olsson d.ä" <bjorn@justi
To: All
Subject: Re: so Jobs gets screwed by IBM
Date:Sat, July 05, 2008 10:42 PM


In article <F7OdnSkDpruk2zTfRVn-gA@comcast.com>, <xenon360> wrote:

> It seems that Steve Jobs got screwed over by IBM, because IBM didn't care
> that much about making the CPUs that Jobs wanted for Macs, because IBM
> decided that game consoles were more important. 'IBM Inside' every
> next-generation game console: Sony Playstation3 (IBM 'Cell' CPU) Microsoft
> Xbox 360 (IBM 'Waternoose' CPU)
> Nintendo Revolution (IBM 'Broadway' CPU) which will ensure tens of millions
> of IBM CPUs sold every year, compared to maybe 5 million Mac CPUs every
> year. even if it was more than 5 million Mac CPUs, it would still almost
> certainly be less than 10 million. so it seems that is one of the
> major reasons why Apple has hooked up with Intel for CPUs
>
>
>
> related article
> http://arstechnica.com/columns/mac/mac-20050607.ars

This is in tune with what most people have been saying. Your point is?


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