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

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 […]