2009年5月5日星期二

Apple is thinking about adding 3G wireless radios to future MacBooks.

Apple's Mac Hardware Group is looking for a quality-assurance engineer with experience in the various networking technologies popular in the personal computing market, such as Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, "and/or 3G Wireless WAN," according to the job posting spotted by Computerworld. Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and Ethernet are the standard network interfaces on the Mac at the moment, while 3G Wireless WAN is a technology confined just to the iPhone inside Apple.
A few years ago, notebooks with embedded chips that could connect to cellular networks were thought to be the next big thing in mobile computing, but the concept didn't exactly pan out in the same way that Wi-Fi is now ubiquitous in notebook computing. But Apple may be considering a MacBook partnership with AT&T, given its close ties to the carrier through the iPhone.
Rumors to that effect have surfaced before, and it might make sense that Apple would want to have some sort of tweak available for its MacBook lineup heading into the second half of the year.
As both an AAPL and MSFT shareholder and user of both companies' products and services, I will point out that Apple has the highest customer satisfaction rating in the industry. Also, Apple's stock performance over the past five years stomps all over Microsoft's tepid meandering.
It is not only the cost of the chipset, but also the cost of the service. I know a lot of people who balk at the cost of the service, but most of the people that I have known that have gotten the service have kept with it. Despite all the hype about Wifi, the reality is that it is pretty easy to find places where there are no public hotspots or in some cases there are no hotspots at all. With a data card you can get access virually anywhere where the provider has coverage and in most major metro areas you will get pretty good 3G coverage. For people who do a lot of business outside of an office the cost of a data card isn't so bad.
The big thing is that a lot of people don't really travel much so they wouldn't get much use out of the a data card. I know a lot of people where the only reason they bought a laptop instead of a desktop is merely to be able to have their computer in any room in their house that they want at the moment. Except for an occasional vacation they don't really take it anywhere.

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