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Apple Netbook Will Fill Newspaper Void

What Apple REALLY needs to do ... is differentiate the eye lines: the iPhone will become smaller, lighter, thinner along all the Apple design vectors. And voice driven.

The iPod will get bigger and become MacCloud. The computer for the rest of us. Actually that would be MacTROU. And indeed, it should still fit in a front jeans pocket. See features above.

All the rest of the eye line, shuffles, nanos, touches, can continue on. But the MacCloud and the itty bitty iPhone are the dreadnoughts of the line.

Apple Netbook Will Fill Newspaper Void

I'll go with a split, foldable, and pocketable 5 inch device over a 10 inch. Wouldn't it be loverly, with all the MacCloud features noted above.

Apple Netbook Will Fill Newspaper Void

Right on. But Apple's netbook will be aimed at the Kindle, not newspapers. A larger iPod can be the next big thing—a Mac that we keep with us anywhere, anytime. The so called MacCloud can be untethered, like the Kindle, providing 24/7 web access via 3G. But a hundred times better than the Kindle, this Mac can connect to ALL our files online.
... Anywhere, anytime access to our content via the web at MobileMe.

Apple can charge whatever it wants for the MacCloud, for the connectivity, and for a subscription to MobileMe. And it can collect for purchases of software, books, audio, video, whatever, which can then reside online, always available to the MacCloud user. All of these revenues can flow directly to Apple.
... Money is the ultimate content stream.