Wednesday, April 24, 2013

The Netbook’s on Its Last Legs

If the netbook wasn’t dead already, it soon will be give it another year or so.

That’s the word from research house IHS iSuppli, which has slapped an expiration date on the netbook, following the device’s continued decline into irrelevance. That date? The year 2015.

IHS figures that netbook shipments, which topped 32 million at their height in 2010, will be a mere 3.97 million in 2013. That’s a precipitous 72 percent fall from the 14.13 million shipped last year. Next year will see an equally gruesome drop, with shipments hitting a little more than a quarter of a million.

And in 2015: Zero.

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Apple's iPad: Netbook Killer (The Mac Observer)

Apple's Steve Jobs kills the netbook — is the PC next? (Computerworld (blog))

The Netbook Is Dying, Killed By The iPad (SiliconANGLE (blog))

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