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iPad Is Destroying Netbook Sales
Hugh Pickens writes "Fortune magazine reports that sales growth of low-cost, low-powered netbooks peaked last summer at an astonishing 641% year-over-year growth rate but netbook sales fell off a cliff in January and shrank again in April — collateral damage, according to Morgan Stanley's Katy Huberty, from the January introduction and April launch of the iPad. In support of Huberty's theory, she offers a Morgan Stanley/Alphawise survey conducted in March which found that 44% of US consumers who were planning to buy an iPad said they were buying it instead of a netbook or notebook computer. In related news, Apple announced that it sold its one millionth iPad last week, just 28 days after its introduction on April 3. 'One million iPads in 28 days — that's less than half of the 74 days it took to achieve this milestone with iPhone,' says Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. 'Demand continues to exceed supply and we're working hard to get this magical product into the hands of even more customers.'"
> When un-crippled devices proved to complex to use and maintain.
If it weren't for the existence of the Macintosh, you might have a point.
It's funny how the members of the cult need to trash the old messiah in order to elevate the new one.
Last year they would have been slinging a different tune.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
it's a leisure device, it's instant-on and easy enough for kids to use without messing things up.
Fuck that, I WANT my kid to mess his computer up. And when he does, unless it is something catastrophically, crazy messed up, he has to learn how to fix it himself.
My dad did the same with me, and it has served me very well. Provide the basics, let them figure out the rest. Mistakes are the best teachers.
Living With a Nerd
its pretty obvious that you are so filled with hate for the ipad simply because you can't afford it.
Why of course, that must be it!
of course you could never admit it but that's because you're a gutter-snipe.
I don't know about that...I don't really go outside much.
95% of the criticism that's leveled against apple kit is based on jealously - it's an unspoken but obvious truth.
Yes, that's it. I'm jealous that people are spending the same amount of money on an iPad that I spent on my laptop, yet they have half the functionality of my purchase. Stupid features and usability. What the hell was I thinking, why wouldn't I want to spend the same amount of money for less functionality? Doy.
Living With a Nerd
I assure you that most people are not as stupid as you (think they are). I bought my iPad because it's NOT a big laptop. Why the fuck would I want one of those?
The iPad does about 90% of what I use a computer for outside of work. And I can bring it anywhere and use it fully in most places I go (i.e. AT&T has coverage). Why would I NOT want one?
I'll eat my hat if Apple sells 12 million iPads in 2010. 6-8 million is very likely however. At the end of the year though, 3 million of those units are likely to have been bought simply due to Apple marketing and not because it was a better option to the customer than a netbook. Perhaps 3-5 million units will be "cannibalized" from Netbook sales by the end of the year.
moox. for a new generation.