It certainly appears that Jobs has no desire to sell the $10 hammer, which has kept a lot of people away from the Apple OS to begin with. I would include myself in that category.

IMHO, and it's only an opinion, I think the recession is going to drive people away from more expensive devices toward those that are a perceived bargain. Thus, if Apple can target that $10 hammer market, I think they'll do well. Jobs might think otherwise, and he's entitled to do so.

I will remain skeptical as to whether or not people will pay $1000 for something that costs much less if it's running Windows for Netbooks or Ubuntu. Again, I agree, there's a niche market for those $20 hammers, but will it sustain itself during "Recession 2009"? That remains to be seen.

Because the whole intent of a netbook is to give people a device that does less than a typical laptop, but more than a typical PDA. Thus, I would expect a netbook to lie somewhere between the iPhone and the Macbook.

I follow your logic, that you'd prefer the Cadillac over the Chevrolet. Such is your choice. However, if my goal is to own a netbook, the Dell hardware, which runs OS X very nicely, will suffice. If I want to do multimedia editing, graphic design, etc. I'm pretty sure a Mac netbook won't do. If it does, I'm not sure I would call it a netbook.

What will the price point be on this device? If it's in the $499 range, it might be worth a look. However, when I can buy a Dell Mini with a 16 GB SSD and 2 GB of memory for less than $350, and install Leopard on it for $85 + the cost of a couple of USB flash drives, why would I want to pay much more than that?