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iPad Isn't "Killing" Netbook Sales, According To Paul Thurrott
mantis2009 writes "Paul Thurrott, the prolific technology analyst and Windows expert, reacts strongly to an article highlighted on Slashdot. Thurrott takes numbers from IDC and the Wall Street Journal, indicating that netbook sales have not in any meaningful way been affected by sales of Apple's tablet computer, the iPad. Money quote: '[N]etbooks and sub-12-inch machines will sell 45.6 million units in 2011 and 60.3 million in 2013. If I remember the numbers from 2009, they were 10 percent of all PCs, or about 30 million units. Explain again how the iPad will beat that. Please. Even the craziest iPad sales predictions are a small percentage of that.'"
Oh, a "true Tablet." Yeah, you wouldn't want an iPad then.
Yes, like I'm sure the 90 pre-orders for the JooJoo tablet really put a dent in Apple's sales.
Yup! Courier is going to kick the iPad's ass! What's that you say? OK, then that HP Windows 7 slate... No? Well, I'm sure someone will make a competing product and actually ship...
The CB App. What's your 20?
The camera connector kit that enables most of these things is $30, which is cheaper than expected, coming from Apple. $30 is about 6 to 9 cups of reasonable coffee. That is hardly expensive these days.
So Ebenezer Scrooge would rather buy a netbook than an iPad. He isn't most people.
"by that I mean people who don't sit on slashdot all day wondering why everyone else isn't building robots" DECS
If your wife sleeps while you're doing weird things in bed then you're doing it wrong.
Watch this Heartland Institute video
If people have 500 bucks to spend on the Ipad, this is definitely a sign that the recession is over. Thank you Ipad, for serving as our bellwether. No matter what its features are, the interface is too clumsy to be useful for much, other than flipping through photos. Lets face it, mouse and keyboard are far superior to touchscreen, for almost any task. Plus there is a great advantage to a traditional laptop that folds shut, in that the screen is protected quite wonderfully in transit. The average Ipad is going to get scratched up rather quickly, much like the Ipods do, which will ruin watching movies on them for a lot of people. If people are willing to actually spend money on something that is way less user friendly than a laptop, but also will look like a scratched up piece of junk in a month's time, the economy is doing just fine.
Always remember the chickens that have gone before