Gosh, do you think there are people out there who don't know this? I mean, people who care?

If you've followed anything about Apple for the past few years, you do have some knowledge of the working partnerships. Didya year, iPhone works on an AT&T system. Shhhh. Keep it secret.

According to some former Apple people in the know, Jobs wanted to migrate to Intel earlier (to coincide with the Mac OS X transition) but the technology wasn't mature to allow what Apple is doing now; Intel processors that are much faster than PPC chips which allows most PPC apps written for OS X to run decently using dynamic translation software from Transitive. It also helped that as the years went on, the installed base moved towards Mac OS X and away from classic Mac OS. With that in place, transitioning to Intel became much easier since Apple didn't have to deal with the whole issue of Classic on Intel (something they could have done but made little sense to do due to diminishing returns with regards to programming and QA time).