{"id":3329,"date":"2005-06-07T13:38:56","date_gmt":"2005-06-07T21:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/06\/07\/dvorak-i-knew-it-all-along\/"},"modified":"2005-06-07T13:38:56","modified_gmt":"2005-06-07T21:38:56","slug":"dvorak-i-knew-it-all-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/07\/dvorak-i-knew-it-all-along\/","title":{"rendered":"Dvorak: “I knew it all along”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tJohn Dvorak says he’s been trying to tell us for years<\/a> that the end was nigh for the IBM\/Apple combination. The Intel platform has some interesting implications (as we said yesterday):<\/p>\n

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I’ve never understood why the Mac nuts are in such denial over this platform shift. This change to Intel will not only save the platform but potentially drive it into a position of dominance. What will be lost, of course, is the niche and mystique aspect of the Mac which many of its users seem to relish as part of some misguided superiority complex.<\/p>\n

A more interesting scenario to me is examining the possibility that Windows users can switch to the Mac OS on their Intel machines. Is this going to be possible?<\/p>\n

I have always believed that Apple could enter the PC arena with an Intel-based computer that could run OS-X or Windows and begin to take market share away from Dell and HP.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So why not? If Apple’s real value is their software, doesn’t it benefit them to run it on as many platforms as possible?<\/p>\n

The PC industry is undergoing one of those paradigm-shift dealies where the PC is becoming a home entertainment device, and Apple is well-positioned (as they say) to take advantage as long as they understand their actual product.<\/p>\n

In the battle over who broke the story first, the Wall St. Journal is taking credit<\/a>.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John Dvorak says he’s been trying to tell us for years that the end was nigh for the IBM\/Apple combination. The Intel platform has some interesting implications (as we said yesterday): I’ve never understood why the Mac nuts are in such denial over this platform shift. This change to Intel will not only save the … Continue reading “Dvorak: “I knew it all along””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-comp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-RH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}