Netbooks more popular than iPhone

Posted on Saturday, December 13 2008 @ 4:27 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck

PC World writes sales of netbooks are now higher than iPhone sales, netbooks outclass Apple's phone by almost 1 million units per quarter. The site also dug up a funny comment from Steve Jobs about netbooks:

According to the latest smartphone sales numbes from Gartner and DisplaySearch's neetbook sales numbers, 4.7 million iPhones were shipped in Q3 2008 while a whopping 5.6 million netbooks were sold in the same period.

Actually, debates sparkled a couple of months ago about Apple releasing a small notebook computer, in the form of a netbook. But Steve Jobs seemed to think that iPhones can do the same things as netbooks, even going on saying that "not a lot of them (netbooks) getting sold."

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Thomas De Maesschalck

Thomas has been messing with computer since early childhood and firmly believes the Internet is the best thing since sliced bread. Enjoys playing with new tech, is fascinated by science, and passionate about financial markets. When not behind a computer, he can be found with running shoes on or lifting heavy weights in the weight room.

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