Steve Jobs isn’t the only one at Apple who isn’t in love with the whole netbook phenomenon. COO Tim Cook, who’s running things during Jobs’ health leave, seems equally unimpressed by the selection of low-priced notebooks, slamming the devices during yesterday’s earning report.
For us, it’s about doing great products. When I look at netbooks, I see cracked keyboards, terrible software, junky hardware, very small screens. It’s just not a good consumer experience and not something we would put the Mac brand on. It’s a segment we would not choose to play in.
The comments certainly seem to put a damper on all of that talk of a 10-inch touchscreen netbook rumored for a summer release along side the iPhone. But then “not playing” that space doesn’t necessarily rule out a low-priced tablet, does it?
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