The rumors flew around a short while ago (link to WSJ, behind pay-wall), but my editorial colleagues at CNET News.com got the story this afternoon: Apple to ditch IBM, switch to Intel chips. I can see from the burgeoning TalkBack thread (50 comments and counting) that people still aren’t sure whether to believe the news. We’ll see, won’t we?
I certainly appreciate the logic Jon Gruber demonstrated in dissecting the WSJ article last week, but I have faith in the edit team at News.com. This isn’t the kind of report you run without review by various parties. Gruber saw the article already, and wonders about the sources.
There are too many reactions to keep up with, so follow the Technorati thread with me. Note: that link won’t get them all because some of the tracking tags make Technorati think that different URLs are different stories. Not their fault, really, but here’s another link to track people who are linking to the story via the URL that went out in RSS. Confusing, isn’t it?