Sep 19, 2010

Netbook Sales Are Crashing! Quick! Blame The iPad, Not The Lousy Netbooks!

http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/17/netbook-sales-are-crashing-quick-blame-the-ipad-not-the-lousy-netbooks/
Well what do you know? Netbook sales are so low right now that a recent report by NPD, Morgan Stanley Research lists last months sales as negative number. Thats right, people are apparently selling the notebooks back or something. (not really, but no one is buying netbooks right now)
Morgan Stanleys Katy Hubertys report is intended to show the state of the netbook market and since the iPad was announced, netbooks declinedsteadily. She states that the iPad is partly responsible to the loss sales. August saw a 4% decline over last years numbers and apparentlySeptemberwill produce similar numbers. If the back to school spending spree cant save netbooks, nothing can. Not even Santa.
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