I used to think that Apple didn't have a good reason to enter the netbook space, but now I'm thinking otherwise when I read stuff like this.
It's not so much that Apple needs to be competing in the low end (they don't), but that if there's no alternative at those sizes based on the licensing issues, maybe there's an opportunity there.
Anyway, it would in fact seem that many netbook users are not exactly heavy users of local applications; classically they're mostly using the web and mail. And then, of course, the disadvantages of not having the Windows OS become much less.
It's not so much that Apple needs to be competing in the low end (they don't), but that if there's no alternative at those sizes based on the licensing issues, maybe there's an opportunity there.
Anyway, it would in fact seem that many netbook users are not exactly heavy users of local applications; classically they're mostly using the web and mail. And then, of course, the disadvantages of not having the Windows OS become much less.