OSNews > Thread > "It's about what you use it for..." by krreagan

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 13th Jan 2009 22:37 UTC

While we're on the subject of netbooks today, I ran across a story by Ars Technica's Erica Sadun, who writes for Ars' Infinite Loop (Apple) section. She poses that Apple already sells a netbook: the iPod Touch and the iPhone. I've heard many people make this claim before (including Steve Jobs himself), but I find it very hard to see the iPod Touch and the iPhone as netbooks.

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It's about what you use it for...

by krreagan on Wed 14th Jan 2009 20:15 UTC

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2008-04-08

I don't care what you call it... But I use my iPod Touch for most of the things that a user would use a Netbook for...

Browsing the web
Email
Keeping my finances
Music
Movies (for both the iPod and watching on real TV's)
Games
Network Admin (VNC, ssh, ping)
Maintain contacts
Calendar

KRR

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RE: It's about what you use it for...

by quatermass on Thu 15th Jan 2009 11:11 in reply to "It's about what you use it for..."

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2005-08-03

But you'd secretly really prefer a slightly bigger screen wouldn't you? ;-)

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