Full FeediPhone sales good, but they don’t beat netbooks
Due to the large amount of success Apple has had with their iPhone, one would think it has easily sold more than netbooks. After all, netbooks are just for people who can’t afford real laptops, right? Apparently not. According to Gartner, Apple shipped around 4.7 million iPhones during the third quarter of this year. In the same amount of time, 5.6 million netbooks were shipped according to data from DisplaySearch. Be that as it may, you have to realize that Apple’s iPhone is one device whereas there are numerous netbooks on the market. That tells you something about the iPhone.
On the other hand, you can’t take all of the credit away from netbooks. Those wonderful little niche products sure have become hot during this year, especially for being as spec limited as they are. And, they are cheap. That’s what is causing many people who don’t need a laptop for anything other than surfing the net to purchase these devices. Furthermore, netbooks (unless you have an EVDO plan) don’t require $70+ a month data plans. These numbers are really interesting; I can’t wait to see what happens during the holiday season with these two devices.
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Throw in iPod Touch sales and I’m sure that the resulting number will be higher than netbook sales.
on December 9, 2008 at 11:38 PM - LINKHere in Argentina netbooks are just getting to be a bit more popular, but they still cost almost the same as a notebook, and you know that spec-wise a notebook kicks the netbook’s practicality anyday.
For $2000 (that’s in pesos, it’s around 600 dollars) you can get a netbook over here. I think the LG X110 costs exactly that amount of money. Comes with a 120gb HDD and 1gb of ram, with a 1.6Ghz CPU.
From $800 to $4000 (dollars, 4000 being the MBP price tag, the “basic” one) you could get a notebook with much higher specs but, of course, bigger in size.
Anyway, iPhone sales are not that impressive, or at least that’s what I see when I walk into a Starbucks. Lot’s of guys with their MacBooks (I smile when a PowerBook comes along), but two or maybe three persons holding iPhones.
P.S.: Yes, Starbucks CAN be used to study product popularity.
on December 18, 2008 at 01:40 AM - LINK