Office Key Netbook Sales Are Crashing! Quick! Blam

by Matt Uses up on September 17,Office Key, 2010
Tags: iPad,Buy Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010, netbook, netbooks
Well what do you know? Netbook development is so low right this moment that in a very latest report by NPD, Morgan Stanley Study lists last months growth being a damaging number. That’s right, people are apparently selling the notebooks back or something. (not really,Office Home And Student 2010 Product Key, but no one is buying netbooks at the moment)
Morgan Stanley’s Katy Huberty’s report is intended to show the state of the netbook market and since the iPad was announced, netbooks declined steadily. She states that the iPad is partly responsible to the loss sales. August saw a 4% decline over final year’s numbers and apparently September will produce similar numbers. If the back to school spending spree can’t save netbooks,Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Product Key, nothing can. Not even Santa.
I couldn’t agree more with the claim that the iPad hurt the netbook market, but let’s not put the netbook’s huge decline totally on the $500 iPad. You can’t convince me that netbook and iPad shoppers are the same demographic. Netbooks had their 15 minutes of fame previous year and were already on a steady downward trend by the time the iPad hit the market in April. Could it be that mainstream consumers finally wised up and opted for a modern notebook instead of underpowered crap? I sure hope so.
Best Buy’s CEO recently stated to the Wall Street Journal that internal estimates pegs the iPad with cannibalizing notebook sales by as much as 50%. That seems more like it. A good chunk of customers that walk into Best Buy looking for a laptop, expect to pay a certain amount and the iPad is at the low-end of that scale.
Tablets in general will probably appeal to those that have a working computer but are just looking for a fresh experience. Netbooks somewhat filled that market the last year, but the early hardware paired with Windows Vista likely turned off most buyers from exploring that route again and can perhaps partly explain their massive decline. Either way,Cheap Microsoft 2010 Office Professional Plus, I can’t wait for the tablet to kill the netbook star.