Works on junk netbook
Apple Messiah
Steve Jobs is apparently back at work controlling the birth of Apple's
netbook.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Jobs might have told the world
that he is taking life easy and not being involved in the daily grind of being a
Messiah for countless Apple fanboys.
However, he is apparently working on
designs and plans for a new ultra expensive netbook. We say ultra expensive
because Jobs has famously said that Apple could not make anything for under $500
which was not a hunk of junk.
According to the WSJ the netbook will be larger
than the iPhone/iPod touches, yet smaller than any of its laptops. Apple has
placed an order for 10-inch touchscreens from a Taiwan distributor for delivery
in the third quarter so the idea is that these could be for Jobs' new netbooks.
However if this was true then it would kill off another popular rumour that
Apple is about to release a tablet. They could be the same thing of course.
Apple's netbook would actually be a tablet, but we suspect that the tablet would
be a lot more upmarket than a netbook.
Jobs was supposed to be taking up his
full time duties again in June, so if the WSJ is right and he is working on a
netbook project it means that he felt that a netbook needs to be out very
soon. It also means that he might actually be getting better quickly, otherwise he probably wouldn't be using his energy giving Apple fanboys wet dreams, making gear that
will be laughed at in 20 years.