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Apple's iPad Seen Cannibalizing Netbook Sales
- jasonlbaptiste 16y agoIt's just about a month into it. There's no way a valid correlation can be made. This is just linkbait.
- pohl 16y agoYou're right: the attempt at making a correlation with the slowing of netbook growth deceleration is dubious. That's only half of the article, though. The other half is data from survey respondents: a Morgan Stanley/Alphawise survey conducted in March that found that 44% of U.S. consumers who were planning to buy an iPad said that they were buying it instead of a netbook or notebook computer.
- Tamerlin 16y agoCouldn't agree more.
- dwwoelfel 16y agoApple doesn't sell netbooks, so the iPad isn't cannibalizing netbook sales. If iPad sales decreased sales of, say macbooks, then it would be appropriate to cry cannibal. Cannibalization from Wikipedia: "In marketing and strategy, cannibalization refers to a reduction in the sales volume, sales revenue, or market share of one product as a result of the introduction of a new product by the same producer." [emphasis mine] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibalization http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibalization