Last week I wrote about Apple's COO calling netbooks junky and unusable--but it would be a good idea for Mr. Cook to take a look at the most recent sales figures from IDC.
According to IDC figures reported in Network World, netbook shipments are up sevenfold for the first quarter of 2009 compared to a year ago. Although netbooks are still a relatively small percentage of all PC business, this rapid growth is significant and PC makers ignore it at their own peril.
Netbooks are decidedly a niche product, but it's a big niche. It's very common for PC users to have a second notebook, and the netbook fits in very nicely as a notebook for traveling, or for those who don't need a lot of high-end power on their machines. Is a $300 netbook the biggest, baddest PC on the block? No. Is it good enough? Most of the time. And "good enough" is a big marketplace.
Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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