Not saying Intel is ignorant of these facts, but the Microsoft/Intel hegemony is shrinking. Not dying, shrinking.
1. Apple and Google built an OS. Intel isn't willing to go after software. Are they smart to limit themselves? Microsoft is at least pretending to make hardware – alienating all the OEMs in the process – and Intel doesn't have what it takes to make software?
2. Cheap laptops have traditionally been Intel's enterprise play. Dell/HP/Lenovo are still selling 1366x768. Is Intel serious about their integrated graphics, while their customers are still being outfitted with 1366x768?
3. The server market is not a safe place to hide. Talk of how Intel is safe on servers ignores the consumer market and Intel is obviously not going to ignore the consumer.
So are we down to a single supplier for all our computers (Apple)? What will you do when Apple screws up? But more to the point, Intel had better watch out before Apple just ditches them entirely.
Just to add to the discussion, intel has a few chips in Tizen. I don't think it will ever succeed in any signifiant way, but it seems they're at least testing the waters.
1. Apple and Google built an OS. Intel isn't willing to go after software. Are they smart to limit themselves? Microsoft is at least pretending to make hardware – alienating all the OEMs in the process – and Intel doesn't have what it takes to make software?
2. Cheap laptops have traditionally been Intel's enterprise play. Dell/HP/Lenovo are still selling 1366x768. Is Intel serious about their integrated graphics, while their customers are still being outfitted with 1366x768?
3. The server market is not a safe place to hide. Talk of how Intel is safe on servers ignores the consumer market and Intel is obviously not going to ignore the consumer.
So are we down to a single supplier for all our computers (Apple)? What will you do when Apple screws up? But more to the point, Intel had better watch out before Apple just ditches them entirely.