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Apple Netbook Will Fill Newspaper Void

MikeSX:
"As an investor I want to see Apple continue to expand the list of innovative products that fill real needs that all humans world wide are dealing with."

At the shareholders meeting I wanted to ask (but time ran out) them to talk about the philosophy of how they decide how many products to produce. Early on it seemed important to slash the product lines and focus on a few well selling devices. Now that Apple's share has grown and OS X is stable and legacy technology has been left behind would it make sense for Apple to enter more markets and capture more revenue? For example, why not make a small sized tower, or a hardened laptop, or a laptop with a much larger screen or other such variations? I'm not advocating for these in particular, just thinking that Apple may be leaving revenue on the table by not having a broader product line.

PS: The Knowledge Navigator is one of my favorite Apple videos. There have been various threads discussing how close we are to that idea. iChat is now commonplace. Voice recognition and synthesis are now quite good. The internet provides access to a large amount of information. The hardware is there to make a device as thin as that in the video. I think the key part missing is the ability of a software program to understand general instructions.