[LINK] "Unforeseeable growth" (iPad)

[Ivan Trundle]

On 21/01/2011, at 9:10 AM, Kim Holburn wrote:

>> Ivan Trundle wrote:
>>> ... Apple announced that they sold 14.8 million iPads in 2010. ...
> 
> I wonder how this compares with netbooks?

Apple would suggest that they are not in the same market.

However, Techaisle suggests that sales of 35 million were predicted in August for the full year.

ZDNet suggests that they are crashing through the floor (but no numbers).

Trending Tech (Technology Trends) suggests that 33.4 million were sold, but that the market is shrinking.

Gartner suggests that netbook production surged in 2008, fsaw some growth in 2009 and is under serious threat from mobiles and media tablets. (couldn't find figures)

Best Buy CEO suggested that iPad sales had significantly cannibalised sales of both laptops and netbooks by as much as 50% (ars technica)

I think that given the premise that an iPad or netbook is a second-order computing device choice (i.e. people already have another eminent device to compute with), the netbook will sit in a diminishing market, especially as more tablets arrive to stake a beachhead in the minds and hearts of consumers.

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