Just a little more than a month.
This was the time needed to have the first version of Mac OS X modified (“cracked” ?) to be able to run on non-Apple hardware available on BitTorent.

Is it a long term strategy for Apple ? Or really a much too simple protection scheme ?

Near future will be fun to watch 🙂

I wrote about the speculation a few hours ago. It is now confirmed : Apple will ship intel-based machines by 2006 and will revamp it’s whole product line by 2007. I wonder how the industry will react and what will be the short term impact on Apple sales.

Although I did not blog yet on the subject, I have to admit : I am a Mac user and fan. I switched from Linux to Mac OS X 4 years ago, looking for an UNIX-rock solid OS allowing to enjoy also all home-computing activites : photo, movies, music, internet in an easy way. Mac OS X provides the best of both worlds : the rock solid unix foundation allied with the Aqua user interface and perfect integration with devices like camera, printer, scanner etc …
Since a couple of days, rumors are refering to a possible switch from Apple : they might use Intel processors in their future machines.
Today, our president & COO even proposed to go one step further : why not build Mac OS X on top of Solaris ?
With our without Sun, is this rumor a new marketing buzz ? is it reality ? Let’s wait for Steve Jobs keynote tonight at the WWDC.