Ars Technica has written an article on what they call insider information, it states that Apples switch to Intel chips is more to do with IBM’s refusal to continue to continue with Apples growing demands. This of course goes against Apples claims that its about roadmaps and performance, they are also purport the idea that Apple wish to be an all Intel shop using Intel’s technologies in iPods, in particular the XScale Technology designed for high performance, low consumption, perfect for a video iPod according to the article.

“The iPod and what it represents - an elegant, intuitively useful, and widely appealing expression of everything that Moore’s Curves promise but so rarely deliver - is the “Macintosh” of the new millennium. There was no need to put on a dog and pony show about how IBM has dropped the performance ball, when what Jobs is really doing is shifting the focus of Apple from a PC-era “performance” paradigm to a post-PC-era “features and functionality” paradigm.”

Famous columnist Robert Cringely has written his own ideas and adds his own speculation on the Intel Switch.

“The whole Apple/Intel deal gets curiouser and curiouser. I wonder if Apple even intends to go forward with the changeover? My guess is they will, but only if Intel complies fully with more unannounced terms of the deal.”

Interestingly both Ars Technica and Cringely seem to think that a video iPod is in the works, with the merging of the iPod photo line into standard a true sign that this will happen. I have to say this must be wild speculation.

Finally Cringely commented on Intel’s “investment” in ClickStar a movie download site, he claims it to now be a coordinated plan between Intel and Apple to create an iTunes Movie Store, this is not so wild, I can see it happening, the demand is growing for it.