I'm surprised nobody has mentioned this... 1587

I think it's just a case of concentrating their energies where they are successful. You need a solid base to operate from, before you worry about chasing other markets.

Well, I'd say the PowerMacs are already living on borrowed time. The Intel transition is well underway, and I don't think Apple wants-needs-can afford to maintain 2 separate hardware platforms.

I expect the servers will be moved to Intel also, buttuming Apple doesn't just drop them entirely.

You mean Apple should sell Intel OS X as a standalone product? I'd love to see that, but the real risk would be Apple losing hardware sales. If the ipods continue to make enough money - and the hardware sales continue to become less and less of the total revenue - then it *might* happen.

The vast majority of ipod-itunes sales are already to WIndows users anyway. Ipod-Itunes is already 60% of Apple's revenue. What happens if it becomes 80%? 90%? If that happens, I can see Apple becoming just ipods and buttociated software to use them.

But I'm not holding my breath.

Again, not Apple's bread and butter market. Having MS Office is nice, but I don't see Apple creating their own office suite to compete with it. They need some business sales first, and that isn't exactly happening. If you can't entice businesses with MS Office, what chance will they have with something else that no one has heard of?

Apple gets such great press anyway, that I really don't think this will amount to much. Sure, there will be some wailing and gnashing of teeth on slashdot, but again, in the real world no one will care.

Good question, and I have no idea.

Mike