Jake Widman
Tuesday, 14 April 2009 02:44
Business IT -
Technology
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In March,
Reuters reported that Apple had ordered 10-inch touchscreens from a Taiwanese manufacturer.
The screens from Wintek, which already makes screens for iPhones, are allegedly set to be delivered in the third quarter of this year.
A 10-inch touchscreen device is, of course, more of a tablet than a netbook. But the iPhone has long had Bluetooth, and the 3.0 OS upgrade apparently also unlocked Bluetooth in the iPod Touch.
So it's a good bet that any 10-inch touch-based device Apple makes will also have Bluetooth--and guess who already makes a very thin Bluetooth keyboard? That's right, Apple.
Put all this together, and it seems like Apple already has most of the technology needed to get a netbook on the market.
Perhaps we'll hear more when Jobs returns from leave.