I’m not the only person who sees Monday’s announcement as the end of the Macintosh. Via Backup Brain, here’s Jerry Kindall:

Mark my words: within five years, there will be no Macintosh. There will probably be no Apple. Bill Gates will have his last little sliver of marketshare. He’s sitting in his office in Redmond, not ten miles from where I am right now, cackling with glee. Apple’s only hope is to get out of the computer business entirely, and that’s too speculative to hang their entire company on. The Macintosh today has been declared end-of-life and the userbase is being transitioned to Windows. I wouldn’t be surprised to see many small Mac developers decide to jump to Windows development today.

I remember Jerry from BBS days, when we were both using the Apple II family of computers. We’ve both been around for a while. We’ve both seen handwriting on walls.