Sunday, June 05, 2005
One last word on the emulation thing
It's been brought to my attention that I haven't really said anything about the emulation technology from the "Apple moving to Pentium to sell movie downloads" story that's supposed to make the whole thing possible. I would think that for such a move to even be something Apple would even consider, then such technology would have to not only in place and ready to go, but a big part of tomorrow's announcements. And WWDC is a developers gathering, after all, so if there's a place to do it, then WWDC is it. It's just that with the emulation thing having come from apparently the same anonymous source as the movie download thing, we're talking about someone with some bad information or who tried to piece together two items that didn't have anything to do with each other.
I think the odds of Apple moving to an Intel-produced PowerPC are fairly decent, Apple moving to an Intel Pentium are fairly remote, and Apple launching a movie download service are fairly absurd. But if the second one happens, then I hope there's some way-cool emulation involved
Bottom line: I don't necessarily think moving to the Pentium in and of itself would be necessarily insane, and a movie download store might not even be a total failure; the only true insanity would lie in the latter being the primary reason that the former happened.
Ah well, we'll all get a collective clue in twelve hours.
It's been brought to my attention that I haven't really said anything about the emulation technology from the "Apple moving to Pentium to sell movie downloads" story that's supposed to make the whole thing possible. I would think that for such a move to even be something Apple would even consider, then such technology would have to not only in place and ready to go, but a big part of tomorrow's announcements. And WWDC is a developers gathering, after all, so if there's a place to do it, then WWDC is it. It's just that with the emulation thing having come from apparently the same anonymous source as the movie download thing, we're talking about someone with some bad information or who tried to piece together two items that didn't have anything to do with each other.
I think the odds of Apple moving to an Intel-produced PowerPC are fairly decent, Apple moving to an Intel Pentium are fairly remote, and Apple launching a movie download service are fairly absurd. But if the second one happens, then I hope there's some way-cool emulation involved
Bottom line: I don't necessarily think moving to the Pentium in and of itself would be necessarily insane, and a movie download store might not even be a total failure; the only true insanity would lie in the latter being the primary reason that the former happened.
Ah well, we'll all get a collective clue in twelve hours.
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