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I'm talking about a smaller version of the macbook air. I very much doubt Apple would try to compete with cheap netbooks, but a smaller form factor would do we

by axod 17y ago

I'm talking about a smaller version of the macbook air. I very much doubt Apple would try to compete with cheap netbooks, but a smaller form factor would do well when you're more pushed for space. So I was using 'netbook' to describe the form factor, rather than price point. I'd say there's far more potential market for a sleek mini Macbook air, than there is for a tablet.

tsally 17y ago
I'd say there's far more potential market for a sleek mini Macbook air, than there is for a tablet. Not if Apple's tablet can do to the tablet market what the iPhone did to the smart phone market. There are huge strides in UI waiting to be made for tablets.
- axod 17y ago
  I still say the potential market for tablet is small. Can't fit in your pocket, no keyboard, no protection for the screen :/
  - pchristensen 17y ago
    Careful, sounds a lot like: "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."
    - axod 17y ago
      Totally different, and tablets have been around (and failed) for a long time. Laptops are the way they are for a reason.
roc 17y ago
And so long as consumer satisfaction on those tiny screens and tiny keyboards is so low, it's a market Apple's not going to touch. Which is also why the hypothetical tablet, if it exists, absolutely will not run Mac OS X. (At least, not while it's out and about, doing it's tablet thing. It's at least plausible that it might act more desktop-y if it docks as a peripheral.)
GHFigs 17y ago
A tablet (assuming it exists) presumably would run the iPhone OS or similar, which gives them a much greater degree of product differentiation than just another laptop, even one running Mac OS X at a lower-than-current price point. This is important because the set of people Apple has been making stupid amounts of money off over the past 8 years is Windows users with no particular inclination to switch to Mac OS X. This is not obvious because we still think of Apple as primarily a computer company, but clearly they don't.

by axod 17y ago

tsally 17y ago

I'd say there's far more potential market for a sleek mini Macbook air, than there is for a tablet. Not if Apple's tablet can do to the tablet market what the iPhone did to the smart phone market. There are huge strides in UI waiting to be made for tablets.

axod 17y ago
I still say the potential market for tablet is small. Can't fit in your pocket, no keyboard, no protection for the screen :/
- pchristensen 17y ago
  Careful, sounds a lot like: "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."
  - axod 17y ago
    Totally different, and tablets have been around (and failed) for a long time. Laptops are the way they are for a reason.

roc 17y ago

And so long as consumer satisfaction on those tiny screens and tiny keyboards is so low, it's a market Apple's not going to touch. Which is also why the hypothetical tablet, if it exists, absolutely will not run Mac OS X. (At least, not while it's out and about, doing it's tablet thing. It's at least plausible that it might act more desktop-y if it docks as a peripheral.)

GHFigs 17y ago

A tablet (assuming it exists) presumably would run the iPhone OS or similar, which gives them a much greater degree of product differentiation than just another laptop, even one running Mac OS X at a lower-than-current price point. This is important because the set of people Apple has been making stupid amounts of money off over the past 8 years is Windows users with no particular inclination to switch to Mac OS X. This is not obvious because we still think of Apple as primarily a computer company, but clearly they don't.