Comments on: Steve Jobs isn’t interested in Netbooks – just ask him

By: Billy Boyd Cape

Billy Boyd Cape — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:55:35 +0000

*COUGH COUGH*

http://www.macrumors.com/2009/04/11/steve-jobs-also-overseeing-apple-tablet-or-netbook-device/

Might want to update this Michael…..

By: arajara

arajara — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:09:25 +0000

yes, it’s true that he said Apple wasn’t interested in putting out a cell phone either….

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Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:07:21 +0000

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By: David

David — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:03:55 +0000

I think Steve was trying to stop the “Apple netbook coming ” rumors. The company has been negatively impacted by rumors in recent years and is getting more aggressive about stopping them before they can do any harm.

Let’s also remember that Steve said in the past that Apple wasn’t interested in doing set top boxes or cell phones and look what happened.

Apple is always looking for the next great thing and for opportunities to take ideas that have been poorly implemented by others and turn them into the next great thing.

By: Gary

Gary — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:01:48 +0000

Apple also said they weren’t interested in entering the phone market.

I still think the iPhone is still too much of a toy to be taken seriously as a netbook. They need to open it up more. I was quite shocked to find out recently from a friend how difficult it is to use and access the hard drive. The original iPod would show up on your desktop as a hard drive and you could put files on it and even make it into a bootable drive for your mac. Why did apple remove that funtionality?

Why is there no Finder type app on the iPhone?

And Apple is also being a little too dictatorial on apps. Safari is far from the best browser on a Mac, allow more options on the iPhone. It’s starting to smell a little to much like the Microsoft bundling of Internet Explorer with Windows, which lead to their anti-trust lawsuit.