Cramped keyboards are awful. What you need is even smaller virtual keyboards with no tactile feedback whatsoever. (What you need is a product that Apple can get away with putting a huge mark up on in exchange for making it stylish.)
I'm just putting the finishing touches to my dissertation which was ALL written on my eee and I didn't find it cramped at any point. Would love to see someone writing a dissertation on an iPhone.
"Not a consumer experience that we would put the Mac brand on. As it exists today, we're not interested in it nor would it be something customers would be interested in the long term."
Well i believe they don't go and make a netbook is not because cramped keyboards or small screens, its because knowing apple it will have the same internals as every other netbook but be about 3 times more expensive. It would sell horribly because netbooks are supposed to be cheap, and it would sell horribly with an apple price tag.
Oh, there is an Apple Netbook coming all right. I took this statement as confirmation of that.
This is what Apple does. They first prime the market by saying "oh, those products are all crap, why would anyone want that?" And at first people go "huh?" but there's that small group of evangelists that starts working to convince people that yeah, you know, these things *do* suck. Then six months later, Apple releases their own and says "see? This is how it should be done!" And by then, everybody's drinking the Kool-Aid - or at least enough people to make billions for Apple.
That's what they did with the iPod, that's what they did with the iPhone, hell, it's what they did with the original Mac. It's been their modus operandi for more than 20 years.
When Apple starts saying "this product category sucks", that's 100% confirmation that there's an Apple version on the way. They just don't bother talking about (or at least criticizing) products that they have no vested interest in. This is a strategy.
@murmermer - You gotta be kidding me. I hate these slave-owning fanboys. Just because something is made of metal doesn't mean it's going to sink! The Monitor was a great and revolutionary ship, and changed everything about the maritime warfare industry. All the ships now are copying the USN's flagship ship! People were like "no, you don't need pivoting turrets" but look now, everyone has them. The Confederates were like "oh yeah, the Virginia is a Monitor-killer", but guess what, it failed.
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cramped keyboards in a netbook, but then he tells us to buy an iPhone? isn't that kinda contradictory?
Can't be cramped if it doesn't exist!
Na its like "This car has a small steering wheel"
"Oh well buy this one, it has a digestive instead"
Yum Yum Yum, Thanks McVities!
Cramped keyboards are awful.
What you need is even smaller virtual keyboards with no tactile feedback whatsoever.
(What you need is a product that Apple can get away with putting a huge mark up on in exchange for making it stylish.)
wait, can you fit a netbook in your pocket?
Was thinking the same thing.
I'm just putting the finishing touches to my dissertation which was ALL written on my eee and I didn't find it cramped at any point. Would love to see someone writing a dissertation on an iPhone.
"Not a consumer experience that we would put the Mac brand on. As it exists today, we're not interested in it nor would it be something customers would be interested in the long term."
Well i believe they don't go and make a netbook is not because cramped keyboards or small screens, its because knowing apple it will have the same internals as every other netbook but be about 3 times more expensive. It would sell horribly because netbooks are supposed to be cheap, and it would sell horribly with an apple price tag.
Oh, there is an Apple Netbook coming all right. I took this statement as confirmation of that.
This is what Apple does. They first prime the market by saying "oh, those products are all crap, why would anyone want that?" And at first people go "huh?" but there's that small group of evangelists that starts working to convince people that yeah, you know, these things *do* suck. Then six months later, Apple releases their own and says "see? This is how it should be done!" And by then, everybody's drinking the Kool-Aid - or at least enough people to make billions for Apple.
That's what they did with the iPod, that's what they did with the iPhone, hell, it's what they did with the original Mac. It's been their modus operandi for more than 20 years.
When Apple starts saying "this product category sucks", that's 100% confirmation that there's an Apple version on the way. They just don't bother talking about (or at least criticizing) products that they have no vested interest in. This is a strategy.
I think for an investor, it is a lot better to see a 3% decline in sales as oppose to (e.g. 16% decline for Dell last quarter).
that was supposed to be under look_around_you's post!
@murmermer - You gotta be kidding me. I hate these slave-owning fanboys. Just because something is made of metal doesn't mean it's going to sink! The Monitor was a great and revolutionary ship, and changed everything about the maritime warfare industry. All the ships now are copying the USN's flagship ship! People were like "no, you don't need pivoting turrets" but look now, everyone has them. The Confederates were like "oh yeah, the Virginia is a Monitor-killer", but guess what, it failed.