Or for the netbooks, they could call it a TinyTim
Amen. I love the CookBook. I would buy one based on the name alone.
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Tim Cook: 'Ideas' for a Netbook, iPhone Price Changes, iMacs?
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Amen. I love the CookBook. I would buy one based on the name alone.
I'm really digging Tim Cook.
Yes, with Cook et al, Apple are indeed in safe hands.
iMacs have decent profit-margins, so I expect those updates to be decent enough to see sales surge. Maybe we'll also get a redesigned Mini with 9400M.
Tim Cook talks too much all ready !!!
Big time.
Here is hoping Tim doesn't try and stake his place as Apple's leader guru. I'm also hoping he doesn't make any of the mistakes of his forefathers either way.
Sounds to me like he is doing both but I hope it's just worded in a way that sounds like that, rather than actually being.
Sounds to me like he is doing both but I hope it's just worded in a way that sounds like that, rather than actually being.
zero interest in netbooks, zero interest in tablets, zero interest in cheaper iphones. Just want a new iPhone with everyone's complaints taken care of that tops the dozens of touch screen phones other companies announced at the mobile conference the last few days... and yeah cheaper plans would be nice i use about 30min of talk time a month, i'd rather just pay for texting
This is slightly unsettling. Tim Cook is an operations guy; his savvy for new products and business models is unknown. Take 'er easy, Tim, take 'er easy.
Now of course we don't have any direct quotes here, so some of this could be Sacconaghi's inference, interpretation, or connecting of dots. But still.
There's nothing contradictory about what he's saying. The MacBook is a C2D 2ghz+ machine, which is a pretty high end piece of technology. The average netbook runs a 1.6ghz Atom CPU, which is nice chip for what it is, but isn't suitable for 100% of what most people are going to want to do with their computer.
Something in the middle would be nice. A dual core Atom (which they already make for small servers and desktop machines), or the return of the Core Solo would likely fit most peoples needs - a little more than the current netbook, and a little less than a MB, in both performance AND price.
Anyways, not super concerned about a cheaper iPhone per se, but would like to see it made available to more carriers to get some competition started in the service plan market, not just hardware makers.
I'd be curious to see what Apple does for a netbook. They can't really dump a full OSX enabled 9 or 10" laptop out for $400 as that would compete heavily with the $2000 MacBook Air. They also can't really make a "MacBook nano" and charge $700-800 for it, as it wouldn't really be a netbook then, it'd be a sub-note.
So do they do an "iPhone Pro" with a multi-core ARM running a hybrid of OSX desktop and OSX mobile? I dunno, they sort of have themselves backed into a corner with the current product line in terms of competing with other vendors for the netbook market, which I predict will be substantial over the next couple years.
They'll most likely do something like that, although I see the OS as more of an extension of the iPhone OS rather than a simplification of the Mac OS X.
We could see such a device occupy the space above the iPod touch (and probably iPhone).
wording
Yeah the wording is sort of ambiguous... I mean "he" could refer back to either Steve or Tim. I would like to think it refers back to Steve, but maybe not.
Yeah the wording is sort of ambiguous... I mean "he" could refer back to either Steve or Tim. I would like to think it refers back to Steve, but maybe not.
+1,000,000
Come on already. Asus, Dell and HP can pump out machines. You mean Apple can't even update this things in two years. I guess if it doesn't have a super glassy, glossy, crappy screen, they don't want to build it.
I would bet steve (think him yelling at sony on christmas eve when he was "on vacation") the wording is vague though I agree, but would bet he meant Jobs.
I don't. NBs are underpowered, tiny and cramped...they only sell because of the economic depression, not because they are attractive per se.
That sounds like a catch phrase from marketing school.
No, computers became ubiquitous when people started embedding computers in microwave ovens, washing machines, bus stops (x minutes to next bus), elevators, cars and just about everything, everywhere, hence the word ubiquitous. The day you go to take a shower and it asks you "How hot?" is the day that computers are truly ubiquitous. Not the day you start making calls in the shower (this was allegedly done already in the 80's using waterproof pulse-dial phones).
On the subject of Tim Cook: Good that he says that update are on the way. Terrible that he only mentions the iMac, and on the desktop side it's not as much "already" as "about time".
AMEN AMEN AMEN!!! Why in the world can't people see that the problem with wider adoption is NOT the PRICE OF THE PHONE!!! They are cheaper than iPods for crying out loud. The problem is the PRICE OF THE DATA PLANS!!! Anyone could buy an iPhone right now, BUT can they afford the monthly bill??? That is a totally different question and the only thing that keeps people from buying it that I know. Even being on a different carrier is a smaller issue because almost everyone I know is willing to switch but the thing that holds them back is they have never had a smart phone and have therefore never paid that expensive of a monthly cell phone bill!
I think Apple is working on this with AT&T with tiered data plans and new models that are still iPhones (smart phones), but not so monthly bill intensive.
P.S. CookBook was by far the best comment in here and it gave me a great laugh lol
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Some ideas? There aren't too many ideas to be had. The consumer PC market is dying (desktop PCs are today's mini-vans), netbooks have filled that slot well because they are cheap, the speed wars are over and no one cares about power, and they aren't tarnished with the image of Vista, and people want laptops anyway, so make it even smaller and they'll think it's even cuter.
Apple doesn't want to make a low margin product just to be in the same market. Look at the Mini. It's a sad admission that they want a premium price on anything.
So his thoughts are, is it worth it to make a device that is less than $999 and more than $400.
And what would make it different and justify the higher price? OS X. Check. Impossibly Thin. Check. Svelte design. Check. And at that price why not make it have 3G and be part of the iPhone family? Check-mate?
Plus making it an iPhone device would allow for subsidies bringing the price back down to where other netbook are at.
I would *guess* those are what his ideas are.
Apple doesn't want to make a low margin product just to be in the same market. Look at the Mini. It's a sad admission that they want a premium price on anything.
So his thoughts are, is it worth it to make a device that is less than $999 and more than $400.
And what would make it different and justify the higher price? OS X. Check. Impossibly Thin. Check. Svelte design. Check. And at that price why not make it have 3G and be part of the iPhone family? Check-mate?
Plus making it an iPhone device would allow for subsidies bringing the price back down to where other netbook are at.
I would *guess* those are what his ideas are.
