I don't believe Intel "needed" Apple, Apple cleary needed Intel, as a matter of fact I'm positive. Granted, it adds something to Intel's bottom line, but I doubt it's much. And the dates don't mesh, the Intel CPUs were launched and then many months after an Apple Mac Pro was launched. Apple still doesn't launch their Macs and IMacs in accordance with Intel's latest CPUs, they have always lagged behind every other manufacturer, IOW, they have never been bleeding edge. Why would you "screw over" 99% of your clients to attract one insignificant player? The first Intel Mac Pro was "Woodcrest" August 2006, the reviews on PCs was already happening in June-July 2006. I've been building PCs since 1998 and for awhile was shipping them all over the world, Apple never had the bleeding edge products, possibly the first were close, but since that time they really lag behind and they never are at the front of the pack in anything, phones included. I suppose anything is possible, but the dates just don't support the theory they were the first to have the fastest Intel CPUs and personally I think they are making the same mistake that they did in the beginning, which almost lead to them going bankrupt, if not for Bill Gates and Co. you would have never heard of an IPhone or IPad...
It's all a moot point now, Apple will eventually quit "making" "computers" and will concentrate on music, videos and IOS devices and who knows what will happen once WinTablets hit the street (I'll buy one then) and other phone makers continue their onslaught of superior products....We shall see.
