BUSINESS MEMO: APPLE WILL CUT PRODUCT LINE

Apple Computer Inc. will cut its product line in half and increase its Internet focus in a recovery strategy that its chief predicts will leave the current troubles a distant memory a year from now.

"Hey, this is Apple. Expect the impossible," Gil Amelio said from his San Diego office last week.

Amelio, three months after becoming chief executive officer at what many consider Apple's lowest point, promised a new, more focused company eager to complete its mission of producing innovative, easy-to-use computers.