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Originally Posted by Graham
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. |
Most of the growth of the netbook market will probably goto the tablet market for the simple fact that there is a limited need to upgrade netbooks unlike most computers because you aren't going to see big performance increases if you do.
If you look at the netbook market the upgrade market has been driven in a large part by the tendency of netbook makers to increase screensizes which is basically just a minor version of a form factor change and thus tablets are just the next change for most of those manufacturers.