Tim Cook: Apple's no netbooks and tablet we do not intend to discuss

During a press conference on the profits of Apple, the company's COO Tim Cook (Tim Cook) answered questions about Apple products - the future and the present. Browser eWeek Nicholas Kolakowski (Nicholas Kolakowski) provided information on the results of the conference.

Firstly, Cook has denied rumors that Apple plans to launch a netbook. Despite the fact that the overall market in the US low-cost netbooks brings good profit. However, consumers will undoubtedly want to get a great product at a reasonable price, and it is a utopia. Indeed, in most produced mini-notebook old pretty weak platform and data processing capabilities limp. At the same time, Apple can not afford to produce high-end netbooks for $ 400-500.

Secondly, COO of Apple declined to comment on the rumors associated with the release of Apple Tablet. Tablet PC as implied, was equipped with a touch-screen size larger than the iPhone or iPod Touch, something similar diagonal display e-book Kindle DX from Amazon.

Back in May, analysts at Piper Jaffrey said that by 2012 Apple will release a tablet with a screen in the 7-10 inch is priced at $ 500-700. This product should fill the gap between the MacBook and iPod Touch. It can be used as an eBook - eBook Reader devices that Apple will be able to sell through iTunes online store. However, this is all just assumptions and forecasts, which are not supported by the representatives of Apple.

Nicholas Kolakowski argues that according to official data, even without Apple's new products have got a decent income from the sales of existing titles. The company's revenue in the second quarter of the year ended June 21, increased 12%. During this period, it sold 5.2 million iPhone smartphones and 2.6 million Mac computers (although iPod sales fell by 7% compared with the same period last year).