p2pnet news | Products:- "At Macworld, when I asked Mr. Jobs about the idea of an iPod Touch in a larger ‘Safari Pad’ format, he snapped at me, ‘I can’t talk about unannounced products,’" said the New York Times‘ John Markoff.

"Intriguing," says AppleInsider, quoting the story and going on >>>

Steve Jobs was reportedly, "none too thrilled earlier this year when he sat down for an interview with a reporter who posed a question about the company’s skunkworks operation to produce a modern day Newton tablet rather than chat about the MacBook Air …

The Markoff report, and Jobs’ reaction, "serve only to bolster claims laid out by AppleInsider last September in its report regarding a modern day reincarnation of the Newton MessagePad, reminiscent of a larger iPod touch, yet far more capable," it adds.

What of the NYT story?

"At Macworld Mr. Jobs told me he was skeptical about the Amazon Kindle book reader because most Americans don’t read," Markoff says, continuing >>>

That touched off a firestorm of criticism and speculation. My favorite bit of analysis was that this must mean he is readying his own book reader. A familiar Jobsian strategy is to denigrate an entire category - he did this with cellphones, for example - before reinventing it with Apple panache.

A bit further down he says >>>

Apple’s multitouch technology began life not as a cellphone, but as a notepad-sized skunkworks project internally dubbed Safari Pad, run by Tim Bucher, then Apple’s head of Macintosh hardware. To his credit, Mr. Jobs seized on the technology and morphed it into the iPhone.

Adds the NYT’s Markoff:

"At Macworld, when I asked Mr. Jobs about the idea of an iPod Touch in a larger ‘Safari Pad’ format, he snapped at me, ‘I can’t talk about unannounced products.’

"Intriguing."

Indeed

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Also See:
New York Times - Reading Steve Jobs, March 3, 2008
AppleInsider - Apple’s Jobs probed over Newton reincarnation, March 4, 2008

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