“We can see Jobs’s argument that the PowerPC architecture may be starting to “box in” the Macintosh, particularly in the critical and growing laptop market, and it’s obvious that Apple has very little clout with Freescale (nee Motorola) or IBM, because its market is so small in comparison to the WinTel monopoly. Developing new processors is extremely expensive, and Apple simply can’t fund that kind of development, even with billions of dollars in the bank. “Think different” isn’t an option in a game this big. If IBM and Freescale will no longer produce state-of-the-art, PowerPC-based laptop CPUs, Apple simply has no choice but to switch, and it’s lucky to have an operating system and code-translation technology that can facilitate that.”