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This is interesting and it just goes to show that when given the option of two products, consumers won’t always necessarily choose the cheaper one, even in a time of economic trouble. Apparently, more netbooks were sold this past summer than iPhones, by a significant margin.
A report at jkOnTheRun shows that when you take into consideration all netbooks sold, the total comes to about 5.7 million units. However, the iPhone only sold 4.7 million units. All of this even though the iPhone is cheaper than netbooks.
This seems to indicate that the netbook market is growing must faster than the iPhone market did, and while consumers that buy either product might be after different things, this data shows users want a complete computing experience for cheaper. Not a mobile device that offers a bit of luxury.
3 Responses to “Netbooks sell more than iPhones this summer”
Andreas.O December 10, 2008
I find it rather amusing and disturbing at the same time that you guys would actually post this. First of all you are comparing apples with pears. In the same sense you would not post an article comparing motorbike sales to car sales or skateboard to bicycle sales, yes they are all provide means of transport but that is were comparisons can end. You also take a single branded product and compare it to everything else. Surely you should compare iPhone sales to similar phones, i.e. N96, X1, etc. The netbook market is a total different market to the cellphone market, and should rather be compared to common notebook or laptop market. This is poor journalism, you guys sure you are not working in marketing and trying to hype stuff out of proportion? :P
+1Marc December 10, 2008
iPhones come with two year contracts which, in the end, costs about $2,000. By comparison, Netbooks are dirt cheap.
NeutralMickBook December 15, 2008
Netbooks is a megatrend. It outsold Macbook by too several times.
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