Apple soars as Intel bores: The post-PC world in stark contrast [Video]

Nothing illustrates the shift in power from Intel/Microsoft to Apple like the contrast between the iPhone 5 launch and Intel’s Developer Forum

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San Francisco’s Moscone West conference hall and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts are just a block apart. But the psychic distance between the two is much, much greater as Intel hosts its annual Intel Developer Forum (IDF) at Moscone West and Apple (finally) launched the much-rumored iPhone 5 at Yerba Buena this week.

I’ve never been one to predict doom for either of the companies whose close alliance used to be called Wintel (Microsoft and Intel, that is) — I’m not about to start — but the curious lack of energy at IDF compared to the huge sense of excitement down the street at Apple’s event is more than symbolic.

Oddly, Intel CEO Paul Otellini is not out front at IDF, “the first time in my memory that IDF hasn’t …