“Will A Netbook Save Apple’s Mac Business?”
A day of reckoning is upon us. Is Apple’s Mac business going out of business? So you might gather from the ridiculously silly headline posted by Andew Nusca on one of the so-called ZDnet blogs.
Think about the question Andrew posed. “Will a netbook save Apple’s Mac business?” Catchy, huh? At first glance, the implication is serious. The Mac is in trouble.
Apple must have become beleaguered again what with the recent economic slowdown threatening the company’s Mac cash cow. Or not.
Either way, Nusca’s headline is.... (excerpted).
4 Reader Comments
Tom Coppinger said:
Let’s not confuse Apple’s need for a netbook with OUR need for an Apple netbook.
I agree. Apple doesn’t necessarily need a netbook. Their business is doing fine without one. And a netbook is the anti-thesis of what they’re about, which is quality and innovation.
But it is the recession, and all this ‘Apple netbook’ speculation is because a lot of us are feeling the pinch, and the price difference between a MacBook and a Dell netbook is vast. Some of us, when it comes to getting our kids kitted out for school or university, may have little other choice than to go for the cheapest option. We’d love to choose Mac, kills us to choose otherwise, but Price becomes the dictating factor.
An Apple Netbook, then, is about garnering the market in the next generation, who cannot afford the MacBook now, but may do so when they enter the workplace.
satcomer said:
Well I think you nailed it. Most of these so-called tech pundits are loosing touch with reality. Isn’t that want got all of us in that Wall Street financial mess when they all lost touch with reality?
Jared B. said:
My good lord what is Andew Nusca smoking? First off I am truly beginning to believe these anti Mac people are just flat out jealous. Face it Andrew Mac people are happier, Our OS X blows away Vista! How do I know I was dumb enough to recently buy a Vaio with Vista 64 bit installed and it sucked period, the worst OS I have ever seen WOW.
Second in my opinion Mac people don’t care what you P.C. reporters cry about all the time. We don’t care! We are proud to be able to afford top end Macs that cost more and there is a darn good reason why a Mac might run you more dollars depending on what model you buy, Macs are not a bunch of generic garbage crammed into a box.
I have been a Mac for three years now, proud of it, never going back and in the three years I have not lost one piece of data due to a virus huh! What’s that Andrew you will have to explain it to me.
The economy has not stopped me from buying new Macs Andrew, I just spent almost four grand on the new 17” MacBook Pro and I have traded in my 1st generation Mac Pro desk top for a 3rd generation Mac Pro desk top, no I am not rich I’m middle class. By the way I love my Iphone 3g and will be first in line to buy the next generation Iphone.
So let me get on category, from what I have learned about Apple in California, Apple does not even listen to stupid immature columnist that do nothing but lie.
I don’t want a Mac net book and I don’t think any of the rest of us Mac users want one of those pieces of junk, our net books make phone calls, send and receive e-mails, run software ware applications and did I forget to mention they take messages for us also, it’s called an Iphone.
See Andrew we here at Apple (the designers and users) have a bit to much class for one of your junk net books. Nice try though.
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Seele said:
Very strange logic that. Perhaps he can say next time: “the lack of a gaming console is hurting Apple”... and another week later, “the lack of a solar-powered sunlamp is hurting Apple”.