Things are good at Apple. iPods and iPhones are selling at something on the order of 100,000 units a day, they have new laptops that are less pricey but still sexy looking, and even Chairman Steve was on the analysts’ call this week for the first time in several years.
But one thing Jobs said really stuck in my craw. “We don’t know how to build a sub-$500 computer that is not a piece of junk and our DNA will not allow us to ship that.” Excuse me? I guess the sub-$500 computer that I purchased doesn’t count, namely, the iPhone.