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Originally Posted by harryE123
It's hard to see apple trampling upon so many misguided fallacies of the pc world type rags and all their pundits and going from strength to strength, with the ipad not only dwarfing netbooks but notebooks too by recent surveys.
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The iPad is not 'dwarfing netbook and notebook' sales. Netbook
growth in sales has been dropping throughout this year, which may be a result of the iPad release eating into that end of the market, or it may simply be that the netbook market has reached its peak and is now in decline, particularly as the low end of the laptop market has been reaching into the same territory.
Regardless, the global netbook market in 2010 is somewhere upward of
30 million units, and even if the iPad climbed up to those figures over the next year it could not be described as 'dwarfing' that market.
Analysts predict that total tablet sales in 2010, largely the iPad, will be about 7 to 12 million.
They do expect total tablet sales to overtake netbook sales in the US over the next couple of years:
http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/17/for...sell-netbooks/
Graham