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by 0x0 4103 days ago
With the switch to x86 and with hardware virtualization available via virtualbox/vmware fusion/parallels, combined with a much larger user base with many having switched over from pc, I think they may find the demand for backwards compability and virtualization is much greater now than during their ppc->intel switch (which happened at a time where, at least from my vantage points, macs were still considered a fringe/specialists/niche platform)