View this article at: http://www.macnn.com/articles/05/06/07/intel.transition.effect/ Tuesday, Jun 07, 2005 12:20am Intel-transition could harm Mac market in short term Apple's move to Intel-based Macs may hurt the Mac platform in the short term. Developers say that both Mac hardware sales as well as developer software sales could suffer in the short term, according to those interviewed by eWEEK: "Either way, there's a lot of work to do. Applications might not be as easy to port to the new hardware as Jobs promised, some developers warned. Others said that although the move would serve Apple well in the long run, the action could hurt the company's sales, and by extension their own, in the interim. 'It's certainly the right decision in the long run. In the short term, there's the worry that hardware sales will drop off,' said Leonard Rosenthal, Chief Innovation Officer of Apago Inc., in Alpharetta, Ga."