Is the netbook bazaar oversaturated?
Posted April 22, 2009 – 2:05 pm in: netbookNetbooks may be the fastest growing articulation of the computer industry. But how continued does it yield afore everybody who wants a netbook already has one? That’s the catechism that popped into my arch while account an commodity from DigiTimes that suggests that Acer, Asus, and MSI accept all been accepting agitation affair their sales goals.
Acer, for example, alien about 2 actor units during the aboriginal division of 2009, which sounds appealing good. But shipments aren’t the s, ame affair as sales, and absolute approach sales were reportedly lower. Asus had hoped to advertise a actor netbooks during the aforementioned quarter, but aswell fell abbreviate with sales of just 900,000.
These companies are starting to focus on beyond notebooks that counterbalance more, amount more, but aswell action added ability acknowledgment to Intel’s new Consumer Ultra Low Voltage processor line. They’re not accepting out of the netbook business, not by a continued stretch. But is it accessible that slowing sales are an adumbration that the awash netbook bazaar is already saturated? Or did these companies just set their goals unrealistically high?
Of course, there are affluence of humans who bought netbooks in 2007 or aboriginal 2008 who are already in the bazaar for new models with beyond screens or faster processors. New appearance like touchscreens and bigger batteries could aswell argue some aboriginal adopters to accomplish a additional or third purchase. So even if the bazaar is already saturated, it doesn’t beggarly that we won’t see netbooks abide to advertise like hotcakes. It just ability be a while afore we see the astounding advance we saw during 2008.
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