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eMJayy 17th Jun 2010
That shift would only be valid for the US market. Netbooks will still dominate tablets globally by a large margin. Quite frankly, the US market gets its value from being the largest purchaser of the most expensive electronics. Netbooks are low priced devices that benefit manufacturers who manage to sell them in huge volumes. That means that the US was never going to be the ideal market for the netbook category. Instead, it's the emerging markets (66% of the global population) that will be the gold mine for netbooks, where they will vastly outsell any tablet not priced below $200.
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