Well, hell, I’m surprised.
I’m not surprised that
Apple has been developing all versions of OS X since its inception to run on both Intel and PowerPC chips.
Maintaining support for more than one processor was obvious from Darwin, and consistent with the BSDs in general. Why throw out support that’s already there?
What I do find surprising is to move to Intel. Granted, I’m not as familiar with their roadmap as Mr. Jobs appears to be. But I am familiar with IBM’s, and I like what I see there. It appears that Mr. Gates does as well.
Anyway, Leander Kahney thinks it has to do with DRM. That pretty much rules out selling to the educated customer, doesn’t it?
TidBITS has more details, as does Tom Yager, from the keynote.