Does anyone think Steve Jobs is sitting by and watching netbooks take off without furiously devising an Apple product response? The MacBook Air could be considered a netbook, but it is well outside the netbook price range.
Jobs has been rather coy about netbooks and in Apple's fourth-quarter 2008 earnings call last month, he responded to questions about when Apple might enter the low-cost notebook space by saying: "We don't know how to build a sub-$500 computer that is not a piece of junk."
Jobs then suggested that the iPhone, which currently accounts for 39 percent of Apple's business, could be considered a netbook, and that Apple has "had some pretty interesting" ideas for how it might bring future netbook-type products to market.
