| | By Nick Farrell in Rome @ Thursday, March 12, 2009 6:59 AM
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| | Apple has ordered large numbers of touchscreens from its Taiwanese suppliers fuelling rumours that the outfit is going to build a netbook.
 The only problem with that idea is that Apple CEO Steve Jobs has ruled out making netbooks saying that Apple did not know how to make anything for less than $500 which was not a hunk of junk.
Steve's word is law in Apple so for the company to start making a netbook he would either have had to be lying, or the netbook would be $501, or the touch screens are for something else.
The screens are being built by the Taiwanese Iphone touchscreen supplier Wintek and the Netbook idea is being touted in the Far Eastern press as the most likely option.
However, Apple Insider thinks that it has come up with another idea, which seems to us to be just as likely.
For a while Apple has been working on a web tablet which has been under development for nearly three years. It has dubbed the “Newton” after Apple's first go at a PDA, which was killed off in 1998.
Apple has applied for several patents for this 'Newton' and last year Tech Crunch claimed that Apple was thinking of releasing a large screen version of the Ipod Touch with a screen 7 or 9 inches in size. The article said that Apple had been experimenting for years with large form tablet devices believes now is the time to market such a device. It claimed that this tablet will be released in Autumn of 2009.
Chief operating officer Tim Cook said recently that people will eventually not be pleased with netbooks. 'It's a category we watch, we've got some ideas here, but right now we think the products are inferior and will not provide an experience to customers they're happy with.' X
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