Anonymous

Virginia

Project Manager

This article contains a blatantly incorrect assumption: that Intel provides subsidies to Apple.

Because Apple does not place the Intel logo on its packaging or marketing, it receives no marketing funding from Intel.

Apple could do this, but then they would be lumped in with the general population of commodity PC manufacturers, which is contrary to their marketing concept.

Apple will license its OS X server and desktop operating systems once the microprocessor transition from PowerPC to Intel Core architecture is complete.

Even at the point sometime in the future when Apple derives the majority of its revenues from software, rest assured that their engineers and designers will always be crafting iconic hardware designs that stand out from the commodity PC manufacturers like Dell.