Will wonders never cease? To the amazement of just about every analyst covering Apple, Steve Jobs announced this morning at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference that future Macs will use chips from Intel - just like most other PCs in the world. Apple has been developing all versions of OS X since its inception to run on Intel and PowerPC chips, Jobs announced, according to

cnet. "Mac OS X has been leading a secret double life the past five years," he said.

The shift should be much easier than the one from Motorola to PowerPC. In the future, developers can create a universal binary that will work on both Macs and Windows-based PCs. In the meantime, Apple has developed Rosetta, a tool to allow PPC-based apps to run on Intel chips. "Every application is not going to be universal from day one," Jobs said.