> yet, many would agree that there's been a switch.

Yes, looks likely in a way: e700 cancelled and e600 EOL'd, while i.MX performance is advancing into their own Power Architecture CPU's levels. But on the other hand, Freescale's Power Architecture department just got a massive performance boost again with the advent of the e5500 core.

> Sadly, there's no wolves over there

As a MorphOS user, my interest lies where MorphOS is. For now that's Power Architecture :-)