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Apple's Cook batters netbooks

by on24 April 2009

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Still a hunk of junk


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toymaker Apple is now unlikely to release a netbook after Steve Jobs' stand-in, Tim Cook attacked the idea.

Parroting his bosses comments that Apple could not make anything for $500 which was not a hunk of junk, Cook said that what was on offer for netbooks was nothing that he wanted the Apple brand on. He said he saw cramped keyboards, terrible software, junky hardware, very small screens.

Apple would only get involved if it could find a way that it could make an innovative product that really makes a contribution. It seems that the words low cost are something that Apple really does not want to get into, even in the dire economic situation which is also effecting Apple's Mac business. Sales of Macs fell by three percent last quarter.

It is fairly clear that if Cook does not like cramped keyboards, junky hardware and tiny screens he has not been using his iPhone lately.  The jump from an iPhone to a netbook is not that great and neither is the price.
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