Comments on: Jobs is out: Apple netbook is coming at MacWorld

By: Baz

Baz — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 01:46:42 +0000

Actually, there’s a rumour afoot that one of the chief reasons Pixar and Disney were playing well together is so Stevo and Walt can share a canister of liquid nitrogen together, while Disney has supplied an amimatronics version of Jobs for trade shows.

Seems that a recent upgrade to Leopard 10.6.5 caused problems for the virtual Jobs – it works better, but has now realized its hardware is no better than anyone else’s and has refused to attend Macworld in a fit of pique.

By: vkgowri

vkgowri — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:08:37 +0000

Netbooks are actually pretty common these days, on the UW campus at least. Not as popular as the MacBook or anything, but you can usually see more than a few if you walk through the library or the cafeteria.

By: T Man

T Man — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:45:56 +0000

No1, backdating is something that Apple is very familiar with.

James, that is a pretty big prediction. I think if they were to do a netbook style device, it would be an iPod Touch with a bigger screen, faster processor, and revised OS. Or it’s going to be a $700+ iBook.

By: James Kendrick

James Kendrick — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:54:32 +0000

Yes you missed Christmas and I got all your stuff. :)

By: cr0ft

cr0ft — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:26:35 +0000

Yep, the guy who runs Apple with an iron fist and as his personal fiefdom and has through that made the company wildly successful has been run over by his cowed, yes-men underlings. I can totally see that happening. Uhhuh. Yessirree, that is it, JK has hit the nail on the head on this one. ;)

Wait… is this april 1st? Did I miss Christmas and nobody told me?

By: No1

No1 — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:12:49 +0000

@Lava: So, the “No Netbook” actually means that they haven’t figured out how to change the resolution in OS X yet?

Or that they haven’t yet come up with a viable plan to extort money using… erm, sell wonderful apps in iTunes?

I believe that the “No video iPod” statement was closer to “we don’t have the money printing machine… erm store ready to support video, and besides we still want you to buy at least half of the refreshes of the iPod, so just buy it now! It won’t be obsolete in 6 months! Honestly! (* The last statement is in fact backdated one year :-)”

By: Lava

Lava — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 07:39:38 +0000

Apple netbook – not. Netbooks will be the death of many a PC companies. They are selling in the millions, sure, but only by cannibalizing sales of full-sized notebooks. This will become clear in another year’s time when companies like Dell will realize they’re selling millions of netbooks but revenues are cratering and profits have disappeared.

As for the “Steve Jobs said no video iPod ever” – please get real. What Steve said actually said was very nuanced, i.e. that there was no market for portable video iPods at the time. And it was true, because iTunes didn’t have a real movie or TV store.

But of course, overexcited anti-Apple fanboys took Steve’s statement as an ultimate declaration, which is why this whole idea urban myth of “no video iPod ever” is still being floated around.

Only people who misunderstand Apple could possible think it’s a great idea for Apple to release products ahead of their time. I think Newton shows what happens when you do that (even though Steve wasn’t even at Apple at the time).

Which is closely related to the misguided enthusiasm on this site to mistake netbook sales with a profitable business model.

By: ArchiMark

ArchiMark — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 06:27:50 +0000

Hmmm…. if you cross a netbook with a Newton, do you get a Newtbook?

;-)

By: Pete

Pete — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 05:15:52 +0000

I think they are definitely somewhat of a fad on certain websites ;) Maybe I am hanging out at the wrong coffee places, but it’s very rare that I see a netbook (usually it’s my own HP 2133).

If we went by what folks in coffeehouses are using, we’d all be using $399 Best Buy Toshiba specials and old Macbooks. :)

By: yet another steve

yet another steve — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 05:11:23 +0000

That’s insane.

Steve Jobs once famously decreed that ipods would never add video.

Look at them now.

And compared to the iPhone, netbooks are quite a small deal.

Plus “don’t know how to make it” really means “we’d like you to buy things we have for sale today, not things still in the labs.”

I think Jobs not making the keynote means no big product announcements.