Hi Phil,
I wonder if IBM is willing to give Apple at least a little kickback on these new ads, if not to the levels of the Intel Inside campaign?
I read News.com regularly and haven't seen anything that I can remember. I did e-mail one of their writers over that sloppy reporting on the Apple/Canon deal. He claimed it was an error by the copywriter. When I pointed out that CNET had to avoid any hint of bias because of their partnership with Intel he took it that I was suggesting a conspiracy and never responded to my next message where I pointed out that it would be a conspiracy of interests, not an orchestrated conspiracy.
Anyway, Don Crabb loves the new ad, calling it historic:
maccentral.com
And as for these little rumors that Intel might sue, we've got Mac the Knife saying this:
Just a patsy
Like Macromedia, Adobe may be somewhat, er, agnostic in its platform loyalties nowadays, but sometimes there's no concealing the truth. Recently, Adobe fielded a call from Intel engineers all hopped up over some Apple-sponsored Photoshop tests that showed the PowerPC 750 (G3) smoking the Pentium II like a cheap Havana cigar.
No strangers to the notion of rigged performance specs, the Intel architects were understandably eager for Adobe to perform its own rerun of the Apple tests. The upshot? Adobe's trials demonstrated that Apple had -- wait for it! -- understated the performance gap between the G3 and Pentium II. Needless to say, the Adobe results have been buried deep in various salt mines beneath the Utah desert to guard against any fallout. |
