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I wonder how Motorola feels about this. I wonder just how much money their contract to build CPUs for Apple was worth.
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Motorola sold their CPU unit a few years ago. I can't remember the name of the company that makes G4s now, but it's not Motorola anymore.
The real company we should be wondering about is IBM, who made the G5s. From my understanding, they said they couldn't deliver a 3+ GHz chip to Apple, but they're giving them to Microsoft and Nintendo by the truckload to power their game consoles. And really, I imagine IBM sees selling chips to power the new Xbox and Revolution to be more profitable than selling to Apple.
As for how this affects Apple...I like the move. Admittedly, I'm only a quasi-Mac guy (I own two Windows PCs and an iBook), but I'm hoping this will allow Apple to compete on performance (with the exception of the dual G5 PowerMac, Apple's entire product line is long in the tooth at this point) and hopefully they'll be forced to lower their prices as well. Now that direct comparisons are going to be made, a 3GHz Intel-powered Mac better be priced comparably to a 3GHz Intel-powered Dell.