Intel says, 'Let Apple be Apple.'

The Jeremy: ;-) let's see....but I still remember similar predictions some time ago, when Intel launched Centrino. As I wrote above, success of Viiv will depend a lot on content providers and growing number of 'Viiv - compatible' products -- so we could share the content virtually everywhere. But let's wait for Apple -- they do it opposite way -- they have content (well, in US mainly) and they will start to distribute it everywhere (well, within Apple world) :). Both approaches make sense.

Thanks, dave, I corrected the post.

I predict that "Viiv" is going to be just as successful for Intel as that processor ID scheme of theirs was.

Scott: Viiv is not processor, it's the platform name. And - Viiv is also much about 'user experience' (with 'tuned' hardware)

SW: ironic is maybe that you didn't read properly (or read properly but didn't got the point). Open standards - in this context - means just PC's that anyone can build from widely available components. But if you touched OpenSource SW - I think that Intel is one of few big companies that - at least - is doing it's best to have drivers available.

"Intel wants electronics manufacturers to design open systems with the Viiv at their core."

hahahaha how ironic

http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/03/032259
http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/01/0230234

I would be happy too.

LightNing won't strike twice?