Cringley Thinks Apple & Intel Are Merging 834
SamSeaborn writes "In Bob Cringely's latest column he talks about the Apple switch to Intel and concludes:
'what's behind the announcement is so baffling and staggering that it isn't surprising that nobody has yet figured it out until now. Apple and Intel are merging.' "
Idea for new Slashdot section (Score:5, Funny)
Apple merging with Intel is a brilliant first move by Cringely. What say you, Slashdotters? Begin!
Hmm (Score:5, Funny)
Wow (Score:3, Funny)
Aptel (Score:5, Funny)
I'm new here (Score:5, Funny)
Pfft. (Score:5, Funny)
Oh wait...
Cringely's Thought Process (Score:5, Funny)
Let me be the first to say... (Score:5, Funny)
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Well... (Score:3, Funny)
<ducks>
Gives whole new meaning to (Score:4, Funny)
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The of course you will dogs and cats living together followed by total chaos! We are talking real end of the world stuff here.
Re:Aptel (Score:5, Funny)
It's Official (Score:4, Funny)
"Apple and Intel are merging."
It's official - The Macintel Speculation Circus has now officially "jumped the shark".
I can only expect that soon Fonzie's long lost nephew will arrive on the scene dressed as Charlie Chaplin, advertising the new "Macintel PC Jr EXTREME".
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Apple is actually switching to Intel to smooth the way for a merger with Sun. Sun is going to abandon SPARC technology in favor of Intel technology. Sun is going to stop building low end workstations and ship Intel based Apple computers.
Cringley and Dvorak are merging! (Score:4, Funny)
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Blue Man Group (Score:5, Funny)
GOOD NEWS! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Remember, you read it there second... (Score:3, Funny)
this one has no legs at all!
Next merger (Score:5, Funny)
Now go bitch about that organisation!
Re:Gives whole new meaning to (Score:5, Funny)
Not to mention iCringely...
HE'S BEEN IN ON IT ALL ALONG!!!!!!11oneone!
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Re:It's Official (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Well... (Score:1, Funny)
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Sad thing about that is... (Score:5, Funny)
I have never felt so inadequate in my life. I know my machine is nearly 4 years old, but to get owned by a machine doing binary translation? Ouch.
Apple/Intel..... Microsoft/AMD? (Score:4, Funny)
It's official. There is no longer any difference between 'good' and 'evil'. Just like how successful Democrats and Republicans are mostly just moderates with different names, good and evil have met in the middle in the tech industry.
It's too painful. Apple (good) with Intel (bad) and so Microsoft (bad) with AMD (good). I can't take it anymore!
In other news... (Score:2, Funny)
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Re:Aptel (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Let me be the first to say... (Score:5, Funny)
Thanks for making me spit coffee out of my nose.
Re:Aptel (Score:2, Funny)
hence the DRM
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GWB accidentally sits on the red nuclear launch button and the ensuing global nuclear war wipes out most of humanity and renders the earth mostly unihabitable. Fox spins the story into a piece about expanding job opportunities. And I dunno, Steve Jobs turns out to be an alien super being secretly pulling the strings behind the scenes...
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Re:Wow (Score:2, Funny)
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You're out of your mind. Intel isn't interested in merging with Apple. Intel is buying HP to resurrect Alpha, which is "the Intel chip" to which Apple is actually porting OS-X.
Besides, when a company with 30B USD market cap becomes a part of a company with 170B USD market cap it's called an acquisition, not a "merger."
Sun's fate is to be purchased by NVidia. They plan to base their "next gen" graphics processors on duel core SPARC technology, obviously.
Meanwhile, RedHat is looking at SGI; the MIPS architecture will play host to yet another port of OS-X licensed from Apple by RedHat.
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Re:Pfft. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Let me be the first to say... (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Aptel (Score:5, Funny)
Some sort of sex toy that you stick in your bellybutton?
I think Ikea sells them.
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My nose is merging too (Score:3, Funny)
And my nose is merging with my dick!
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In Soviet Russia, you eat cannibals, uh i mean in Soviet Russia, cannibals eat you...ugh, forget about it
Re:Wow (Score:1, Funny)
You meant "meant," not "ment."
Microsoft to merge with AMD (Score:5, Funny)
Wow, anyone can do this!
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I've got it....It's the reverse vampires (Score:3, Funny)
Let's have some respect people (Score:3, Funny)
As a gesture of respect, let's abstain from jokes about hot grits being poured down pants, Natalie Portman, and the pathetic pasttimes of old people in Korea and take a quite moment to imagine a beowolf cluster of Apple computers running on Intel architecture!
Re:Idea for new Slashdot section (Score:2, Funny)
Hey, what did you expect from a Cringely story, a happy ending?
KFG
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Re:Sad thing about that is... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Why Intel, and not AMD: (Score:2, Funny)
Apple should use this as a slogan in an advertising campaign. Preferably accompanied by silhouette video of Linux geeks been badly beaten with blunt Powerbooks, accompanied by some nice, soothing death metal.
OT;Re:Umm... (Score:3, Funny)