Apple are making computers with Intel chips. Dell are dumping Intel, we’re told.
Cringely says Google won’t enter the desktop OS market – the margins are too thin, there’s just no money in it, they won’t do it. “Google WON’T go head-to-head with Microsoft for a desktop operating system or a cheap PC” says Robert X. Makes sense. But El Reg says Google are working on a version of Ubuntu Linux (let’s hope they make it less… ochre… but then I’m a SuSE boy if I’m anything, mainly because TillyPaint runs in SuSE but not in Ubuntu).
And if you compile Applescript apps that call Unix command lines, in Panther they just run. In Tiger they throw up a warning dialogue box, which sucks if you want to use it as a start-up item to get a machine to boot up and run the Opera web browser in Kiosk mode, with no human intervention. But if you take the app you compiled in Panther, and run it in Tiger – no dialogue box! Which is weird, quite useful and yet maddenning. And why can’t I find anything about this stuff on the internet?
I blame Google.