John Gruber, commenting on Jean-Louis Gassée’s essay about the possibility of ARM-powered Macs:
The delay in truly-new Mac hardware while waiting for Broadwell chips is exactly the sort of reason why Apple wants to own the whole stack. Anything they depend upon, they want under their control — and on the Mac, they depend upon Intel for CPUs. Maybe Apple will never pull it off and thus won’t ever make such a switch, but I’d be shocked if there isn’t a team inside Apple working on it already.
His comments reminded me of this clip of Steve Jobs announcing the switch to Intel: