In news that’s likely to disappoint those who’ve been harping on about an affordable Apple notebook, the company has said that they will not be releasing a netbook and while they’ll be watching the market, they won’t be going near it for the time being.
While Steve said the company had no such plans for a netbook back in autumn, the rumors raged on, right through winter. Prior to the refresh, many speculated that the company was about to release a low-cost notebook and despite the fact that no Apple netbook was announced, fans still hoped.
“We don’t know how to build a sub-$500 computer that is not a piece of junk,” Jobs said during an Apple earning call in 2008.
COO Tim Cook this week repeated the company’s stance on netbooks, as well as the possibility of a low-cost iPhone or iPhone Nano. Something that the blogosphere has been talking about since just before the holidays.
We expressed doubts about the idea of an iPhone Nano claiming that it would be too small and wouldn’t sell. According to PCWorld, Tim Cook stressed during the company’s earnings call that Apple won't produce low-end phones and that it doesn't want to be the market leader when it comes to the number of unit sold. Apple wants to make the best phone possible, period.
So that’s the end of the iPhone Nano and an Apple netbook. We have to say we’re a little relieved. We’re getting netbook fatigue at this stage.
Cause you have to subtract the Apple tax probably 2 bones. that will leave you with 300 bucks to work with.
actually i would think a more fair comparison would be the mercedes B class. that's not a real mercedes.
All that shiny plastic and buffed aluminum is expensive nowadays.
Just take a look at Tom's SBM, Steve Jobs doesn't know what he's talking about. If you can build a system that will play Crysis for $625, you could easily build a system that can run all 12 programs that run on Mac OSX.
If apple didn't over price their components, they could easily make a sub-$1000 system.
Nomination for quote of the day.
No camera zoom.
No MMS.
No copy and paste.
No voice dialing.
No video recording.
No landscape texting.
None of the above requires any hardware changes and have been problems since the iPhone was first released. Instead of TRYING to have the best phone on the market why don't you fix the one you currently DO have on the market. Stop giving features you THINK people want and give them what THEY want.
The C and even the E aren't real Mercedes.
Apple only know how to built expensive computers any cheaper it baffles them
They can't even build a computer that is not a piece of junk at their current prices.
with about a $50/m 500mb data transfer with Rogers and free wifi over any open Internet wifi
For $249 you get a 16gb iphone
Do the math. Come say summer 2009 snow leopard will be released
It will take about 8gb of space, maybe less, for an operating system that will blow away anything that a netbook offers
No iPhone nano cause they may have a 16gb iPhone blowing the doors off of Netbooks
As it stands now a 16gb iPhone has thousands of apps, plus movies and music
I'd say for browsing the net the iPhone that fits in the pocket and can access the web almost everywhere with a camera and a phone etc will blow away any netbook
An iPhone with snow leopard would be unstoppable!
After all can netbook companies compete at the $250 range, the same price as a 16gb iPhone?
LOL
Apple is indeed smiling!
So if you are comparing the true $$ involved then you are really saying
netbook = 300.00 or iphone = 600.00
and netbooks will run Windows 7 soon... with a 1gb ram and a 1.6ghz atom processor.. hmm... whats in an iphone? and lets be real for a moment.. are you really going to compare the craplets iphone has to the worlds entire catalogue of windows apps?!
never confuse toys like iphones with actual computers... iphones weren't even designed as smartphones per Steve Jobs 1 year ago when asked regarding exchange compatibility, they are fun novelties meant to replace the ipod.
if apple is smiling.. they are doing so nervously like every boutique computer manufacturer.. on the other hand all the 3rd world kids are finally smiling.. long live OLPC
I am hoping that Snow Leopard will fix this. Yes, I will be buying Snow Leapard after reading some reviews first though. Snow Leopard will be moving to full 64bit (Leapard is a mix of 32-64) and the ZFS file system or at least be able to read and write to it. I hope they use it for the OS too. Google it if you don't know what probably is the most advances file system on the planet it (ZFS).