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."
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: