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...smartest-looking, easiest-to-use, best-engineered computer there is? The time is right, he says. We are wallowing in digital cameras and camcorders and MP3 players that get harder to use, not easier. The thing that will connect us to our gadgets needs to be a digital hub, a computer designed to simplify our lives. This, Jobs says, is what Apple was meant to do--and it's what no one else in the PC world is doing...
...fixes you with his famous pay-attention-here stare and furrows his Salman Rushdie eyebrows: "We believe the next great era is for the personal computer to be the digital hub of all these devices...
...dread on the part of Somalia's fledgling government. And European coalition partners such as Germany have also expressed reluctance to extend the military campaign beyond Afghanistan. But the challenge in Somalia and elsewhere right now may be quite different from Afghanistan - to prevent the emergence of a new hub of terrorist sanctuaries, rather than destroying an existing one. A mission, in other words, with heavy emphasis on intelligence and building the capacity and incentive for locals to stop Al Qaeda gaining a foothold...
...downsides to the iPod other than its relatively weighty price tag. It would be nice to see that lowered soon, although the Mac universe is an expensive place to begin with. If price does turn out to be no object, expect Jobs to capitalize on his "digital hub" strategy with a few more Apple-only peripherals: the iCamera, perhaps, or the iOrganizer. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have some Beatles-inspired housework I need...
...seen to be deporting hundreds of desperate Muslims." And there's the rub for Malaysia, where the relaxed visa requirements for travelers from Muslim countries?combined with what some critics describe as often less-than-vigilant immigration procedures?have made it the main Asian hub for the people-smuggling syndicates...