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The margins on netbooks are currently so small that they're essentially a commodity, and apple has never been a commodity company. Netbooks are clearly popular
by hegemonicon 17y ago
The margins on netbooks are currently so small that they're essentially a commodity, and apple has never been a commodity company.
Netbooks are clearly popular, so it seems unlikely that apple simply isn't interested in the market. The question is "can apple create a netbook that's differeniated enough from the rest of the pack that they can get the margins they want on it." The fact that one doesn't seem to be in development yet suggests the answer is 'no', but they may just be focusing their resources elsewhere.
- ugh 17y ago“doesn't seem to be in development yet” How do you know?
- mikeryan 17y agobecause there has been absolutely no indication from Apple that they are? (note no one is saying they aren't, just that they don't "seem" to be)
- jacobolus 17y agoApple is pretty good at being secretive when they want to be... remember the Intel switch, or the iPhone.
- ugh 17y agoWell, with Apple that doesn’t mean anything. Sure, updates to existing products or small new stuff may leak. But the big things? You don’t see ’em comin’. But I would have to agree that it at least seems not very plausible to me that Apple is, at the moment, developing anything that would be recognisable as a Netbook. Hopefully not, because Netbooks may be cheap but they sure are ugly.