MOSR never said the iBook would haver a crank. It did say that someone might try it, but it never said Apple was planning to release the iBook with a crank. People tend to forget that MOSR often "reports" things that are possible, not things that are actually being done. They also report on prototypes, and anyone familiar with R&D knows that for every 1 procuct shipped there's a closetful of monstrosities that never made the cut. So, maybe Apple has MacOS X running on an TRS-80, and maybe MOSR will report that, but that doesn't mean it's going to ship.
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MOSR never said the iBook would haver a crank. It did say that someone might try it, but it never said Apple was planning to release the iBook with a crank. People tend to forget that MOSR often "reports" things that are possible, not things that are actually being done. They also report on prototypes, and anyone familiar with R&D knows that for every 1 procuct shipped there's a closetful of monstrosities that never made the cut. So, maybe Apple has MacOS X running on an TRS-80, and maybe MOSR will report that, but that doesn't mean it's going to ship.