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You may remember a brief frisson when Steve Jobs, Apple's chief executive, announced that the company was switching from IBM processors and would put Intel processors in Apple Macs. Some devotees regarded this as akin to a religious betrayal; more detached folk regarded it as inevitable. IBM had refused to develop the PowerPC processor line any further and it would have been nuts for Apple to go into the chip business. That left only Intel. QED.
It is indeed an interesting point, but when he says in the last line:
"And the moral? If your business is platform-specific, diversify. Now."
He doesn't seem to realise, it might apply to the supplier of the very computer he has just bought...
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"And the moral? If your business is platform-specific, diversify. Now."
He doesn't seem to realise, it might apply to the supplier of the very computer he has just bought...