Essay: Apple's Quandary
Posted 921 days ago
At the World Wide Developers’ Conference last June Apple’s charismatic CEO Steve Jobs gave a keynote outlining the company’s long-rumored move to x86 chips produced by Intel. Also at that conference the first machines which could run the x86 version of Mac OS X which had been secretly in development alongside its PowerPC counterpart for years were made available to developers. The machines, which included generic PC hardware along with a trusted-computed (TCPM, TPM, Palladium, etc.) chip which allowed the operating system to verify that the machine was truly a dev kit and not a generic PC.
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