Apple COO, Tim Cook put the smack down on speculation surrounding a rumored Apple NetBook device. In the company's Q2 results call, Cook described the current field of NetBooks as having "cramped keyboards, terrible software, junky hardware, very small screens" and "not something we would put the Mac brand on." He also added that if an opening for innovative hardware appears, Apple will jump in.
Using our Apple to English translator, we take this to mean that, everybody is doing it wrong, they all suck, and we will have something better when we are good and ready. Oh, and it won’t be called a NetBook.
Industry reports keep piling up, pointing to black-ops style NetBook shenanigans taking place beyond the drawbridge at Castle Cuppertino. Quanta and Foxconn are rumored to be duking it out for a shot to build the wee computer and large orders of 10-inch touchscreens may, or may not be, on order from Apple.
Even with NetBooks gaining popularity in the WIndow and Linux world, it's hard to determine if Apple finds the devices dreadful or if they are play coy and are secretly buildingsome sort of NetBook. Called something completely different of course.
xzanthan
April 25, 2009 at 11:09pm
I think it should be a 14" touch screen that your iphone slides into to inter grade's your 3G connection. That would be out of this world....
Quayzar
April 23, 2009 at 8:54pm
Perhaps they should make it the iMacBook as it would be mostly an internet appliance as the iMac was originally intended to be. However knowing Apple they would not use this name but perhaps would build the device it describes.
