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[Lunar Adventures] Could Apple be banking not on software, not on hardware, but on services like iTunes and iMovies (or whatever else you want to call the theoretical and predicted service to buy movies in an iTunes-like environment)? Maybe Apple needed the Intel DRM to convince movie execs to let them make this service. Could be why Apple ignored AMD in this whole thing — who a lot of people think have better chips, overall, than Intel.

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[Pointman’s Page] Cringely: Apple + Intel: In his usual fashion Cringely puts the screws to Apple over the announced switch to Intel processors. He makes some well thought out points (this is Cringly, afterall). The only place I tend to disagree is on DRM. It is pretty easy to dream up how Intel can use DRM to squish AMDs ...

[epilogue: Amol Hatwar's Technology Blog] Yes. Apple!: For long, we've known that Apple in general avoided Intel processors because they just didn't have... wold think of an Intel digital Microsocope? The question is will an Apple take-over help them make... Besides this, people behinf DRM and the industry in general was always behing Apple to get into DRM

[BizBlogs] Apple and Intel: The Apple Blog, Dispelling a few Intel Myths : "There’s a lot of confusion surrounding Apple’s move from PowerPC CPUs to Intel x86 ones, so in the interests of clarification: Mac OS X will run on my Dell No, it won’t. Somehow Apple will make sure that the operating system that makes

[Drmblog.org] DRM News Blog: (Press Release) According to the latest research from the Strategy Analytics Connected Home service, technology providers are now overcoming many of the hurdles in the race to develop tomorrow's connected home, where consumers will be able to easily transfer their digital music and video files between the home PC, the home theater and portable media devices. The report, ' Connected Home Rollouts Await Direction From Content Owners,' identifies one major remaining obstacle: major content owners such as Disney, Fox and Warner are still not convinced that digital rights management (DRM) solutions are meeting their needs. Connected home proponents such as Intel, Sony and Philips must give high priority to solving DRM interoperability challenges if they are to maximize the revenue potential from this 144 million connected device market opportunity.

[Wiredblogs.tripod.com] The Cult of Mac Blog: Meanwhile, Microsoft's notorious "Palladium" initiative, a controversial secure computing environment blandly renamed the Next Generation Secure Computing Base, will be a key part of Longhorn. NGSCB needs a hardware component, and Intel is a founding member of the related Trusted Computing Group, which is working to implement such systems.

[Jluster.org] Jonas Luster » Blog Archive » Apple on Monday, Bliss or Bust?: As always before major Apple events, such as WWDC or Macworld, the rumor mills are churning out the good and bad stuff. This time it’s about TabletMacs and Apple’s possible move to the Intel processor platform.

[Engadget.com] Apple marrying Intel for their DRM chips? - Engadget - www ...: #4, #6 - Intel stated that the new chips "do not have unannounced DRM technology" and so far they've already declared the inclusion of "several copy protection schemes." Read through Intel's previous press releases and you'll find that DRM is part of the "Trusted Computer" Platform" and that the "Trusted Computer Platform" is a component of the 945 chipset. I hope consumers F Wintel and Apple in the A if they actually implement this crap.

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