The Apple Blog has posted a short info that the MacBooks and MacBook Pros are being sold out in major flagship stores around the world (San Francisco, Toronto, Manchester) which I cannot verify at the moment. If true it would confirm Apple in its strategy not to enter the low cost notebook market and instead rather bring pro features to consumer markets. It is very easy to credit Jobs with such a move as he is known to have made some drastic moves within Apple (You did notice Apple makes phones now right?) but I am thinking this could have been driven by others as well. With Tim Cook and Jony Ive getting some spotlight time at the notebook event and just seeing how passionate Ive was about his new babies I really think investors are dumb to be scared of Jobs leaving the company. He did build a culture within the company that some say is molded around him but you cannot deny the passion Apples employees have for their products. And if Ive, Cook, Schiller and others are a sign of things to come – Apple has nothing to fear.

Smart move Apple, if only I hadn’t bought the February 2008 MacBook Pro 🙂