Charles Moore

Charles Moore (1951-2018) was a well known freelance writer who lived in Nova Scotia, Canada who wrote about the Mac for over 20 years — with a special emphasis on mobile computing from the vintage PowerBook to the current generation of the MacBook and iPad — and his column, “The ‘Book Mystique,” had been a weekly feature on MacPrices since 2011 until his untimely passing in 2018 due to health complications.

Why All Those Pundits Who Said Apple Needed To Make A Netbook Were Right

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Business Insider’s Dan Frommer recalls that prior to Apple’s 2010 iPad launch, many observers contended that needed an entry in the then hot-selling netbook category in it’s lineup (I was definitely one of them), an idea that Apple CEO Steve Jobs explicitly scorned during and Apple earnings call in October, 2008 with the much-quoted utterance: “We dont know how to make a $500 computer thats […]