No, not the software kind of updates…
A fair bit of Apple news came out overnight. The big announcement was that Steve Jobs will now be taking a 6 month medical break, and that Tim Cook will assume his role at Apple.
(Guardian, another Guardian story and the Independent)
Now, I hope Jobs does recover from whatever he has got, but boy has this whole thing been badly handled by Apple.
Other Apple news
Some financial results have now come out, and there was some interesting little stats.
What was of interest is that Acer grew by 55% compared to this time last year. Now, Acer is a big player in the ‘netbook’ category of laptop computers.
Apple has not expressed an interest into going into this area, which a lot of Apple geeks on various forums seem to think is madness. Perhaps now, after seeing these figures, Apple may change their mind.
Currently, we have two iMacs. Yuko has one, which also acts as the TV in the living room. I have an iMac in the study for my OU work, geeking around and acting as a secondary TV recording device. Having got rid of my MacBookPro, I must admit I would like to have a ‘netbook’ which I can take with me to OU tutorials. They are energy efficient, and it would be an ideal portable device. People have (illegally) hacked OS X onto these Asus, MSI and other similar machines. So, it shouldn’t be that difficult for Apple to make an official one.
UPDATE: Turns out that the Acer figures may be distorted because Acer purchased Gateway in the last year. Would be interesting to see the Acer stats minus sales inherited from Gateway.