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Originally Posted by SensualPoet
With respect, besides you (and now me) no one in this blessed world has ever heard of, seen in real life or possibly actually bought, the Sony Dash. Remind me: what is the point of this device?
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I would guess it would appeal to the kind of people who also buy digital picture frames, I don't get them either, but the market exists.
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Netbooks, OTOH, have been in market since CES 2008 when they were "all the buzz" at the January Las Vegas meet up and ASUS was leading the parade. An entire class of computing has emerged since and most major brand names have climbed onboard ... Sony and Apple being significant "no shows". There is (profitable) room between -- well, nothing, and "clunky" laptops
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All the buzz they might have been, but the profit margins on them have never been very good, its one reason why the screen size continues to creep up as there's more scope for them to increase their margins if they move to a less crowded segment of the market.
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Jeez ... some of us really like light weight, long battery life, basic web and e-mail access in a small form factor that fits in the in-room safe while we're on holiday ... and in a pinch runs familiar software and can make a full VPN connection back to the office. And this is the market that Apple and Sony have walked away from; and Dell and a few others, are taking wait 'n' see. Meanwhile newish players like ASUS, and established players like HP, are reaping profits and locking in new customer relationships.
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Apple are a spearate issue since they have chosen to limit their range, but sony haven't walked away from making light weight hardware with long battery life, what they have actually done is avoided the potential to harm sales of their more expensive and slightly more powerful ultraportables by not releasing a netbook.