> I remember this fiasco. And then shortly after that, rumors started popping up that Apple was working on porting OSX to x86.
Article concerns the last half of 1999. It turns out Mac OS X development on PPC was shadowed on Intel (after all, since 1995 NeXTSTEP ran on Intel), but the rumor didn't appear until nearly 3 years later in Spring 2002, and it didn't really have any traction and quickly subsided long before Jobs' announcement confirming the rumor another 3 years after that in Summer 2005.[1] No one still expected it by then, but at the same time, no one was all that surprised. Business as usual that Apple kept a secret for 3 years, but it's pretty crazy how they somehow suppressed a true rumor for 3 years after it was published.
Article concerns the last half of 1999. It turns out Mac OS X development on PPC was shadowed on Intel (after all, since 1995 NeXTSTEP ran on Intel), but the rumor didn't appear until nearly 3 years later in Spring 2002, and it didn't really have any traction and quickly subsided long before Jobs' announcement confirming the rumor another 3 years after that in Summer 2005.[1] No one still expected it by then, but at the same time, no one was all that surprised. Business as usual that Apple kept a secret for 3 years, but it's pretty crazy how they somehow suppressed a true rumor for 3 years after it was published.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS#PowerPC–Intel_transition