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No, the Mac user base in merely comprised of a self-selected group of people who value progress over legacy support. You've made it pretty clear that you consider this to be the wrong choice, but going so far as to imply that anyone who makes it must be some kind of irrational platform zealot is a bit much, isn't it?

See above. The Mac's current user based in best "appeased" by Apple shipping great new stuff on a regular basis.

The corporate enterprise market, possibly. I've argued for quite some time though that the corporate enterprise market is probably headed in a different direction from the rest of the personal computer market. I think Apple probably realizes this, and realizes that its strengths lie elsewhere, and so isn't even really bothering to pay lip service to what the enterprise market wants anymore.

I think the idea of moving to Intel was probably originally conceived of as a last-ditch option, and the Intel port of OS X was maintained so Apple would have that option, if all else failed. But then things changed a bit.

Transitive's emulation technology, the first solution for running PPC code on x86 at reasonable speeds, came along. This made the transition vastly less risky, and turned it into something that was reasonable to do by choice, rather than out of necessity. By the time Apple actually pulled the trigger, Transative's technology (and Intel's roadmap) had changed it from a desperate last-ditch option into a relatively safe and obvious move.

Absurd fear-mongering. There was never any significant risk to the survival of the platform in this transition.

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