Comments on: In praise of Think Secret

By: James Bailey

James Bailey — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 20:32:08 +0000

I remember my disdain for the idea of going with Intel quite well. From a technology point of view, it seemed like a hopeless task. Then, maybe 72 hours before the keynote, I read a couple of things that changed my mind. While arguing with someone on a forum (probably Macworld forums), it was pointed out that Quicktime was ported to Windows and in doing so, much if not most of Carbon was as well. This was an eye-opening comment to me. If Apple had ported Carbon to Intel already, most of the technological arguments melted away. The second was the above mentioned Transitive. I did a little research and discovered that they did indeed have a PowerPC emulator technology and it was radical. The second huge technological problem in a transition was solved. I do remember my dismay in discovering that the rumor sites were correct. I was not surprised on the day of the announcement.

By: Nigel Tufnel

Nigel Tufnel — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:46:36 +0000

Thank you for a well written, informative article. I agree with much of what you’ve said here, and there is something about this whole mess that leaves me with a bad taste, even though Apple has given me a lot of ‘computing happiness’ over the years, with more to come I hope. I do have to ask the question- doesn’t a company have the right to try to protect its trade secrets; its business?? I feel part of what many of us love about Apple is the way they do things differently from other tech companies. It’s like watching Willy Wonka when Steve gets up on the stage at MacWorld. But I will admit there are times when I wish I knew the guy personally, so I could pull him aside and tell him, “Steve- don’t pull all that company’s books from your store”..or, “Steve- why don’t you just buy them out (whoever it was that had the Sherlock-like thing happening first)? It’ll look a lot better and get you guys positive press.” Then again.. it’s no longer ‘beleaguered Apple’, so he must know what he’s doing right??

By: Shawn King

Shawn King — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:32:05 +0000

I don't agree with your assessment of ThinkScret (as John Welch says, "their MO was to run the same story over and over and then if they were eventually right, to say "SEE? SEE? WE TOLD YOU SO"") but I certainly agree wholeheartedly, with the last line.