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> In article <2592015.9SDvczpPoe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> ____/ ZnU on Tuesday 06 Oct 2009 08:12 : \____
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>> > In article <2874488.XVLH7GnMWU@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>> > Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> >> ____/ ZnU on Monday 05 Oct 2009 07:12 : \____
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>> >> >> The Apple engineers might be able to answer this question. Reports
>> >> >> suggest
>> >> >> they preferred Linux at first, but it was GPL (Jobs doesn't like that).
>> >> >
>> >> > Well, the answer seems to be in the source article:
>> >> > http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2008/11/the-iphone-coul/
>> >> >
>> >> > Tony Fadell, the guy who was pushing Linux, saw the iPhone as just an
>> >> > iPod with a phone function, not the much more ambitious smart phone
>> >> > platform that emerged. In that use case my above objection goes away
>> >> > (there would be no need to port Cocoa and other OS X technologies to
>> >> > such a device), and embedded Linux might have been a good alternative to
>> >> > the little proprietary embedded OS the non-Touch iPods run.
>> >> >
>> >> > I'm rather glad Apple decided to go with the more ambitious version of
>> >> > the iPhone, though. If Apple hadn't gone and created a smart phone then,
>> >> > everyone would be talking about missed opportunities now.
>> >>
>> >> That's what they say about tablets/sub-notebooks.
>> >
>> > Apple's got a subnotebook, just not a *cheap* subnotebook, so that just
>> > boils down to the same old claim that Apple is missing an opportunity by
>> > not competing in the low end. They probably are missing an opportunity
>> > to sell more units there; I'm not sure if they're actually missing an
>> > opportunity to make more money.
>> >
>> > As far as tablets go, Apple's isn't out yet, but it's rumored to be
>> > shipping in the next six months or so, and the market is still wide
>> > open, really. Various tablets have been around for years (starting with
>> > Apple's own Newton in 1993, depending on where you draw the line between
>> > a tablet and PDA), but nobody has really hit on a "killer app" to take
>> > the tablet mainstream.
>> >
>> > Given the fact that, according to the recently published comments of a
>> > former Apple exec, Jobs had previously axed Apple tablet projects asking
>> > "what they were good for besides surfing the Web in the bathroom",
>> > perhaps the fact that Apple is apparently going ahead with this tablet
>> > project means they think they've finally answered that question.
>> >
>> > Or maybe web browsing is just so important to people's lives these days
>> > that surfing the web in the bathroom has become a killer app. Heh.
>>
>> So why do they make their laptops so white?
>
> They mostly don't anymore.
Yes, exactly. Cause the customers took these to the bathroom.
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