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[techno_bull]

Tablets obliterated netbooks. Indeed they did.

Netbooks were crappy PCs. (I have one)
Tablets are crappier PCs. (I have two)

[morrowinder]

ibc: Too simple an interpretation...

Netbooks were a REALLY cheap limited function/small screen laptop.

They never competed well with laptops and were designed to surf the NET. They were successful because they were cheap. But the experience was far from great.

The iPad did easily beat that because of ease of use and even better functionality with touch, since the netbooks small screen made using castrated Vista/Win 7 kinda awful. Now that netbooks are gone the Ipad momentum is slipping.

[wbmw]

Tablets obliterated netbooks.

Wrong again. Netbooks have evolved, just like everything else. But you might look at them today and call them Chromebooks, or cheap Windows laptops.

For example:

Windows:
http://www.amazon.com/Dell-Inspiron-i3531-1200BK-15-6-Inch-Laptop/dp/B00KMRGF28/ref=sr_1_1?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1409777809&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.com/Acer-Aspire-E3-111-C5GL-11-6-Inch-Laptop/dp/B00KJIY79S/ref=sr_1_16?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1409777990&sr=1-16
http://www.amazon.com/15-6-Inch-Dual-Core-2-16GHz-Laptop-500GB/dp/B00L49X8E6/ref=sr_1_8?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1409777809&sr=1-8
http://www.amazon.com/X200CA-DB01T-11-6-Inch-Touchscreen-Laptop-VERSION/dp/B00CPIF4G0/ref=sr_1_2?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1409778084&sr=1-2

Chrome:
http://www.amazon.com/Acer-C720-Chromebook-11-6-Inch-2GB/dp/B00FNPD1VW/ref=sr_1_2?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1409777809&sr=1-2
http://www.amazon.com/Asus-C200MA-DS01-ASUS-Chromebook-11-6-Inch/dp/B00KD5RUN2/ref=sr_1_12?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1409778066&sr=1-12

I bet you Intel is selling more Atom processors in low-cost laptops today (labeled as "Celeron" and "Pentium"), than they did with Atom and "Netbook".

[drjohn]

Tablets are PCs.

Tablets are content consumption devices that are very mobile-handheld, they are poor content creation devices. P.C.'s are great content creation and consumption devices. Do you really believe that most of the content on tablets was created on tablets?