Posted on Sunday, September 12 2010 @ 21:06 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs admitted during the company's IQ 2010 event
that the smartbook market is dead as the niche has already been occupied by tablets like Apple's iPad.
Qualcomm has all but confirmed that the smartbook is dead, with CEO Paul Jacobs admitting during the company’s IQ 2010 event this morning that tablets such as the iPad had already occupied the niche his company expected smartbooks to. Jacobs described slates like the iPad as delivering the concept of “always-on, all-day devices” that smartbooks had initially promised.
