Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
The thing is, it could have been a Mac netbook instead of a PC version.
But it’s not.
The netbook works wonderfully - he can hook up his Nokia N95 via USB cable or by Bluetooth and surf the net anywhere over a 3.5G Internet connection.
He can quickly transfer photos taken on his digital camera to the netbook’s hard drive if he needs to while on-the-road, although as a professional he has plenty of extra memory cards.
He has loaded AVG anti-virus for protection, but uses Gmail anyway which has anti-virus inbuilt.
The netbook is a simple appliance that does its job perfectly well, and provides a vastly superior experience for reading email and surfing the web than his iPod Touch, which he still loves anyway.
2009 will likely see the Mac netbook it makes so much sense to release, even if it has to come with a version of OS X that is halfway between the iPhone version and that of the iMac.
Given that Asus is launching touch-screen based netbooks next year, which will come loaded with Windows 7 when it will theoretically launch in mid-2009, all the hardware parts are there for Apple to release a netbook of its own.
The hardware parts are there for Apple to put Blu-ray drives into its computers, too.
Despite Steve Jobs making claims that Blu-ray and netbooks are bags of hurt, and crap, I think it’s all just another case of Steve Jobs trying to distort reality with his misdirection field, before proudly announcing sometime in 2009, perhaps even from Macworld onwards, that he’s revolutionising things once more.
I guess we’ll just have to wait and see. In the meantime, netbooks fly out the door, and none have an Apple logo.
The iPhonetbook / Netmacbook – where are you? Or rather, when in 2009 will you appear?
David Bass
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