Apple Inc (AAPL)

[langostino]

Nothing Jobs says

... should be taken at face value. He has a long history of denying Apple has any interest in a market, even while he's got engineers burning the midnight oil and spending millions of Apple $$ pursuing that market.

He lies when he believes it's in the best interest of the company. He lies when he thinks it will sell more products. He lies to keep himself out of the grips of the SEC. He lies when he just doesn't want to provide an answer. He lies when it helps stoke his ego. He lies to affirm his control over information. He lies for all those reasons and many more. He may be pathological, but hey, he's OUR pathological, so it's all good. LOL.

All of which is to say, of course Jobs is well aware of the netbook market and well aware of the demand in the Mac user base for a netbook, and well aware that not every "Pro" wants to be constrained to a 15" form factor and nothing smaller. And he'll respond to those markets if and when he damned well pleases. And not a moment sooner.