Evidence is building that Apple is actively looking to recruit engineers to test new Macs with support for the 3G Wireless WAN support. Those familiar with the company's plans have said that Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard will support the native WWAN hardware.
A year ago Apple CEO Steve Jobs was quoted in USA Today that Apple explored the idea of building a 3G chip into the Macbook Air, but decided against it because he didn't want the Macbook to be tied to one specific wireless carrier for using the internet.
Snow Leopard's System Profiler shows support for WWAN at the same level as other technologies offered by Apple, designed directly into the Mac hardware models. This may imply that WWAN services including support for 3G wireless networking may just become a Macbook standard.
What may be of interest is if Apple does build 3G into future Macbooks it is likely that we will see large subsidies against the popular laptop selling at a substantial discount. Macbooks are the perfect choice for this technology and will bring mobile computing to the next level.
