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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
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I predict it will be available with internal wireless broadband service from a variety of cellular providers.
This will enable Apple to make an expensive "go anywhere" netbook and sell it cheaply - the monthly subscriber fees will subsidize the higher prices, just like cellphones.
This will also enable Apple to start doing business with other wireless players, while sticking to the terms of its agreement with AT&T.
In the end, Apple will be able to pit these telcos against each other in business deals to its advantage, much the same way it did with the recording industry and the iTunes Music Store.
Their netbook (the iNet?) will run the iPhone/iPod touch MacOS, optimized for the same applications and games available from the App Store.
It will leverage the GPS and motion sensing capabilities of the smaller iPhone platform, with the better performance of the larger Mac Books. The mobile apps will drive mobile data plan subscriptions, and vice-versa.
The (more or less) locked down nature of the platform will reduce piracy and give Apple even greater control over what its clients see, hear, use and buy.
Their netbook will be the razor, and cellular broadband and apps will be the blades...
I predict it will be available with internal wireless broadband service from a variety of cellular providers.
This will enable Apple to make an expensive "go anywhere" netbook and sell it cheaply - the monthly subscriber fees will subsidize the higher prices, just like cellphones.
This will also enable Apple to start doing business with other wireless players, while sticking to the terms of its agreement with AT&T.
In the end, Apple will be able to pit these telcos against each other in business deals to its advantage, much the same way it did with the recording industry and the iTunes Music Store.
Their netbook (the iNet?) will run the iPhone/iPod touch MacOS, optimized for the same applications and games available from the App Store.
It will leverage the GPS and motion sensing capabilities of the smaller iPhone platform, with the better performance of the larger Mac Books. The mobile apps will drive mobile data plan subscriptions, and vice-versa.
The (more or less) locked down nature of the platform will reduce piracy and give Apple even greater control over what its clients see, hear, use and buy.
Their netbook will be the razor, and cellular broadband and apps will be the blades...
she sucks
On the right, Obama is doing too much and turning the USA into a socialist paradise. On the left, Obama is doing too little and blowing his big chance.
On both sides, doom, gloom, disaster, lies and self-propelling prophecy.
Hope sold for a while, but Fear sells more soap in the long run.
The untold truth is, the stock market is just like Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme, but with more participants. Obama isn't going to admit that, not for a while anyway.
He isn't talking about real change yet; military and "homeland" expenditures are still a massive percentage of the latest budget.
For years to come, we will spend much more in this country on hurting people than helping them. I seriously doubt that this is going to "change" anytime soon, even though that is the change we really need.
Blathering bloggers have nothing on Watergate / Vietnam era "real" journalism, which fostered substantive changes in American society.
Hyperbloviating is a shortcoming of the media on both the left and the right: NYT, Salon & NPR as much as WSJ, Fox & CNBC.
There were very good reasons for mentioning freedom of the press in the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights, but we've little possibility of seeing significant responsible journalism thrive again in this country.
The Fox is in the henhouse running the presses now, along with his friend the Peacock; meanwhile the people are sheep.
The internet is not going to save journalism, because fearmongering and controversy generate many more click-throughs than sensible, moderate reporting.
Freedom of the press is great, but where is responsibility of the press?
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
