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I'm not disputing that, at all. I'm saying that if Apple HAD done it, they wouldn't be fucked. Gruber suggests that if they had made a netbook, they would have
by imok20 17y ago
I'm not disputing that, at all. I'm saying that if Apple HAD done it, they wouldn't be fucked. Gruber suggests that if they had made a netbook, they would have lost money. (Been fucked, in the lingua franca, evidently.)
- jacobolus 17y ago> Gruber suggests ... No, he doesn't.
- imok20 17y agoHe outright typed it, doesn't just suggest. Forgive me... "As Jason Snell put it, imagine how much money Apple could have lost if only it had a netbook."
- jacobolus 17y agoNo, you are mis-reading: the “analysts” said that Apple would lose money if they didn’t make a netbook; instead, they made boatloads of money. Snell is snarkily pointing out that said analysts got things precisely backwards backwards by rhetorically asking how much they’d “lose” with a netbook. There’s no suggestion that they’d actually have lost money, or gained money, from a netbook. It’s pure snark, posed as a counterfactual rhetorical question. No one can really know how things would have gone with an Apple netbook: the point is only to call out those who second-guessed Apple’s strategy and have now been made fools of.
- unalone 17y agoWell, you make less money off a netbook sale than Apple does from a Mac sale. He points to Snell's tweet about that. But beyond that, he just points to the people who said Apple HAD to make a netbook. (Obviously he disagrees with the concept of netbooks, but that doesn't have to do with the claim chowder.)