Bader’s Bits

How’s that for a five year summary of Apple’s future? You’ll be able to say you read it here first.

Hear me out. With the recent management changes at Apple the time is right to move OS X off of its old BSD core and onto Linux. In doing so, all Linux and open source application developers are now in essence writing for Apple’s platform. The distraction of KDE vs. Gnome goes away: OS X and Aqua become the desktop and UI for Linux.

Next, Apple takes Boot Camp to its logical conclusion: virtualizing the hardware and allowing any OS to run. That will make Apple’s hardware the most versatile in the industry. Amongst others, enterprises would embrace it because with one vendor, they’ll be able to run any desktop environment. Big market share growth. Sweet.

To frost that cake, Apple and Intel work together to exploit multiprocessing and multi-core CPUs, and really demonstrate that Vista is the end of the line. With Intel now struggling for direction, and fantasizing they can succeed in consumer marketing, a great solution would be for Apple to start setting Intel’s strategic direction and eventually subsume them. By then Dell will be all over AMD as they chase lower costs. Apple is the only company that can save Intel long term.

So the real frosting on the cake is combining Disney, Apple and Intel. It is what Sony had hoped to become. Whether this becomes one corporate entity or just Steve Jobs’ fiefdom, it would absolutely rule in cool. I just hope that as the empire grows that Jobs is more beneficient than Gates: open it all up a bit and make us consumers happier.
Let me know what you think. And remember, when all this comes to pass, you read it here first.