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Originally Posted by leebase
It's a ridiculous article. I seriously doubt that ipads will put more than a slight dent in net book sales. An iPad is not a netbook. A net book is a small, cheap, lower powered version of a lap top. The iPad is none of those things except being smaller.
There is a nice overlap between why someone would buy either a net book or an iPad...but it's not a one to one comparison. I do not foresee any time where ipads will sell even 1/3rd as many units as netbooks.
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It is not a ridiculous article at all, both netbooks and tablets fit into a similar role in that they tend to be a smaller companion devices to your main computer rather than your only machine, if you want to be picky then it is easy to point out their differences, but it is the relative positioning of the devices between smartphones and fullspec computers at the other that links them.
If you look at quotes from people such as the ceo of asus they recognise that tablets will have some effect on netbook sales, albeit not so specific as just the ipad.
While it may not be possible for just the ipad, it isn't inconceivable that in a few years the tablet market as a whole is at least 1/3 of the netbook market, after all hasn't the whole netbook market only existed for a few years itself?