Tech Pundits, Take Yo’ Meds!

Tech Pundits, Take Yo’ Meds! « The Angry Drunk:


I know that you tech pundits have an all consuming desire to see Apple compete in every market in the known Universe; but you really need to stop mistaking the voices in your head for official Apple PR

Amen!

I’m watching everyone hype themselves into a netbook frenzy again.

Hard to believe, from listening to the pundits out think themselves, that Steve himself said this:

Steve Jobs: Netbooks are “nascent market”, Apple will wait and see | The Industry Standard:


n response to a question about netbooks, the ultra-compact, comparatively underpowered notebooks that seem to be gaining traction recently, Jobs said the market was “nascent” and Apple wasn’t ready to enter it. But the company was taking a “wait-and-see” attitude towards the small machines. McCracken told me that Jobs “seemed pretty neutral” about them.

about seven weeks ago.

Yet people actually ignore what steve actually says and go off predicting what he’s going to do. Do you really think Apple is going to shift from “wait and see” to “here’s the new product” in january?

sigh. and some of the worst at this get paid to blather. why anyone pays attention to them I dunno. not that I’m calling down the wrath of Rob Enderle or anything, but….

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  • Peter

    In their defense, part of the reason for this is simple.
    Remember last Christmas? You went to amazon and looked at the most popular notebook computers and Apple held most of the Top 10.
    Go look now. What do you see? At 5:19PM PST, I see one MacBook in the Top 10. Everything else is ASUS, Acer, and Samsung “NetBooks.”
    If you continue down the list, 11-14 are more “NetBooks.” You’ll see one Vista Laptop coming in at 15, and Apple taking positions 16, 17, 19, and 20 and yet another NetBook coming in at 18.
    So, in amazon’s top 20, we’ve got 6 “full size” laptops (5 from Apple and one from Toshiba) and 14 smaller-size laptops (eg, NetBooks).
    Gee, wonder when Apple might decide that the market isn’t “nascent” after all. Maybe once they get knocked out of the Top 10?

  • anonymous

    Apple is researching the matter (ARM or x86? full-fledged Mac OS X? mini-notebook or tablet? this or that?), toying with the idea and building crazy prototypes as we speak. This is mandatory as per the Apple product cycle (variation 2) as explained by John Siracusa.
    http://arstechnica.com/staff/fatbits.ars/2005/09/20/1314
    1. Some new product or technology enters the realm of feasibility.
    2. Slavering Mac enthusiasts discuss how cool it’d be “if Apple made one of these.”
    3. The widespread rumors cause reporters to ask Steve Jobs if Apple is, in fact, doing what the rumors suggest.
    4. Enthusiasm wanes among the Apple faithful as Jobs repeatedly bashes the rumored product idea.
    5. Jobs continues to bash the idea, but starts to change the language subtly.
    6. Apple either introduces the rumored product, claiming that it’s finally been Done Right™, or Apple kills the project internally.

  • Constable Odo

    Apple can’t get into a netbook war now that people that are clearly looking for bargain computing platforms. Any netbook Apple would build would cost $300 more than any other company would charge. Heck, netbooks are less expensive than the iPod Touch. I think Apple should just leave the netbook market alone. Apple would have to compete using a Touch Tablet and even that would be more expensive to buy than an iPod Touch.