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Originally Posted by Thomas Richter
I totally disagree with that. If Apple's history tells anything then that hardware did not matter too much - as long as they could preserve their software basis, they changed the underlying hardware and added a translation layer. It is just that x86 development is at standstill, and that is because the hardware is about to collapse about its legacy.
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Well you can totally disagree, but the reality is that's what Apple actually *did*.
Hell, their entire marketing philosophy was literally that: Think Different! PPC was part of that.
And it worked- many Mac users argued and genuinely believed that PPC was one component that gave them better performance and experience.