12/07/2005, 7:15pm, EST
Wednesday, December 7th
Apple CEO wanted Intel move 5 years ago
Mayer's comments about Apple's transition fuel rumors that the Apple's move to the Intel architecture had been planned as early as five years ago, and recent statements by Jobs himself indicated that Apple worked hard to keep its five-year long Mac OS X for Intel project a well-kept secret, according to AppleInsider.
"So today for the first time, I can confirm the rumors that every release of Mac OS X has been compiled for both PowerPC and Intel," Jobs said in June when he announced Apple's plans to go Intel. "This has been going on for the last five years," he said.
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In the end, its secrecy was important. If this got out back in 2000, Apple might not have made it through the MHz drought of the G4 and G5.
The same is also true for BSD / Darwin and most of the other open source components.