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VentureBeat: Steve Jobs is back — he’ll lead Apple’s netbook efforts, says WSJ

  • lk · 8 months ago
    yeah
  • Brendan · 8 months ago
    Think 10" tablet the same rough shape as iPhone, with a pop-out stand and Mac OS X touch. When a device like this comes along everyone will be saying: "that design was obvious, we should have seen it coming". And yes, software only keyboard. K.I.S.S.
  • Enrico Pangan · 8 months ago
    I think the reason why Microsoft's Tablet PC failed is because it's basically just Windows with a touch screen. For a real Tablet PC/Mac to succeed, the GUI has to change... pretty much like how the iPod Touch defined how the GUI for a small touchscreen machine should look like.
  • Bobby · 8 months ago
    "In other words, who needs a keyboard, anyway?"

    Yeah, they've been working on this for a little while now already:
    http://www.theonion.com/content/video/apple_int...
  • T1 Rex · 8 months ago
    What they'll do without Jobs in the long term is problematic, but I'm sure glad he's engaged now. It's the perfect time for Apple to dominate the next generation of multimedia netbooks and perhaps the computer/television interface for HDTV.
  • Ed Oswald · 8 months ago
    Bobby:

    haha ah yes The Onion. Always great for a lighthearted look at the news, and even the media itself :)
  • George Zachary · 8 months ago
    Actually, you are incorrect in saying that most netbooks dont have 10" screens. The vast majority of product entries (from MSI to Asus) do have the canonical 10" 1024x600 display.
  • rkorba · 8 months ago
    true, but young pups like you can see in that screen size... i want one that has the dimensions (albeit landscape) of a real, say... piece of printed text. then, i stop coveting a kindle asap.
  • P · 8 months ago
    I would buy a giant 10" ipod touch with OS X in a heart beat... and I have never bought from apple before.
  • rkorba · 8 months ago
    BTW, Ed -- nice post. MG would be proud!
  • Ed Oswald · 8 months ago
    It's only my first here with VentureBeat. I could only hope to write half as good as MG! Them there are big shoes to fill...
  • Chris · 8 months ago
    I'd like it if Jobs came back. That would make people focus on what Apple is announcing instead of why Steve Jobs isn't the one telling us.

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  • tri · 8 months ago
    You should have kept the Font a little more smaller, its too big now.
  • ChriS · 8 months ago
    You have the wonder did the iPhone / Ipod Touch / App Store become the public development and refining in markets that existed (mp3 players and cellphones) while Asus and Acer built public interest in a potential new market: the netbooks. Providing Apple the abilty to walk into a market.
  • Bob Hogg · 8 months ago
    Er, isn't there already a 10" OSX netbook? The MSI Wind? :)
  • homepage · 7 months ago
    What's next? How do you top the iPhone?
  • edsion007 · 2 months ago
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