True, but Apple were running Macbooks on power back then I think. I know windows was even more dominant then than it is now so perhaps large numbers of powerbooks was never on the cards.
But in the server space the story might have been different.
I take it intel were planning "Mobile Itanium" at some point?
On those days Apple market share was still of a company struggling to get out of insolvency, and they never had any significant market share outside North America during the last century.
Yes, on the server it would have been differently, however Linux distributions might have still killed the other UNIX vendors with their CPUs alongside, as it happened.
But in the server space the story might have been different.
I take it intel were planning "Mobile Itanium" at some point?