Tim Cook, Apples chief operating officer has stirred up the web lately, by calling out the flaws in the Netbook design and calling them "junky".Netbooks are meant to be a cheap way to access the internet and are mostly directed at student's that cant afford full fledge desktops.But are Netbooks really considered to be junky,and are they worth it in the long run?For students,I think so.
Despite being cramped the netbook's work quite well,but Tim Cook's statment shows us that apple may not be ready to get their hands dirty in the netbook industry...yet.
Here's what Tim Cook said when asked about his thought's about the netbook.
"For us, it’s about doing great products. And when I look at what is being sold in the netbook space today, I see cramped keyboards, terrible software, junky hardware, very small screens, and just not a consumer experience, and not something that we would put the Mac brand on quite frankly. And so, it’s not a space as it exists today that we are interested in, nor do we believe that customers in the long term would be interested in. It’s a segment we would choose not to play in.
That said, we do look at the space and are interested to see our customers’ respond to it. People that want a small computer so to speak that does browsing and e-mail, might want to buy an iPod Touch or they might want to buy an iPhone. And so, we have other products to accomplish some of what people are buying netbooks for and so, in that particular way we play in an indirect basis."
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