In article , Wolf K
wrote:

the same time, Apple swore up and down that they would never - NEVER!-
use Intel chips.
they never said anything remotely close to that.
Well, according to the news sources I read, they did.
i don't know what you read, but steve jobs actually hinted at it:

from 2002:
https://www.computerworld.com.au/article/33425/apple_set_intel_switch_/
At Macworld Expo, analysts quizzed Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Jobs was
asked if there was a possibility of the company switching to Intel
chips. He said: "First of all, we have to complete the operating
system transition. Then we would have options. And we like to have
options."

But thanks for the info on the PowerPC chip.
no problem.
Yeah, but that was after Apple "officially" claimed that it wasn't going
to do that. IIRC, reports of that "hint" was the first I heard of the,
er, transition.
cite where apple officially claimed that. "news sources that i read"
isn't going to cut it.

Sure, if I'd know you wanted a citation, I would have kept a file folder
bulging with newspaper and magazine clippings.

fortunately, the internet has kept a (virtual) folder of far more than
just that and without any of the bulges, and google and other search
engines have indexed it to help you quickly find it.

note that i found a citation from 2002, sixteen years ago, which shows
that they said the *opposite* of what you claim they did.

it also doesn't matter what they said. the change in processors had
little to no effect on end users, other than new macs were faster.
powerpc macs didn't suddenly stop working and apple worked very hard so
that existing powerpc software continued to work without issue on intel
macs and made it easy for developers to create universal apps that ran
on both.

contrast that to windows mobile 6, where users were left in the cold.