http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20050609.html

Interesting suggestion.  Any truth?  There's definitely something going on... It will be interesting to see how this works out for Apple.  I don't believe they're ready for a larger market - they've always targeted a smaller, cliquey group of users. So why switch? At best, this article is right - it will hurt Microsoft.  And it would hurt Apple even more; assuming that OS X would not run on "vanilla" x86, I highly doubt such an OS wouldn't be hacked, and such 'protection' broken.  And when that happens, we'll have a really nice, souped up, clean, BSD based OS that people would distribute for free.  Apple will be in trouble.

Why would they announce such a product switch SO early?  They're not ready to ship anything yet - so why forecast this kind of change?

Steve Jobs has something up his sleeve.  It may not be Intel as the article suggests, but apart from offending his current userbase, I'm not quite sure what he hopes to accomplish.

I don't believe that Intel is "angry" at Microsoft - if it weren't for them, they wouldn't be selling anything today.  No, the conspiracy is located at Apple, and someone else.  This Intel & Apple vs. AMD/Microsoft angle seems to be going a bit too far.