You also had Intel move in with Atom, and the two of them combined basically put down a stringent definition of what a netbook was supposed to be. This in larg

You also had Intel move in with Atom, and the two of them combined basically put down a stringent definition of what a netbook was supposed to be. This in large part to avoid Netbooks eating into their lucrative ultra-portable platform that corporations kept buying for their road warriors. The fear being that corporations would switch to Netbooks with a mobile data connection and simply access corporate computing resources using Citrix or similar. Note btw that this was much the same idea that Google had when they first started pushing Chromebooks, to the point that one of their big launch demos were the ability to run Citrix. Never mind that this also mothballed any plans for Android beyond phones. As seen with how even the 3.x "tablet" UI, that was perfectly adapted for landscape use, was gradually rolled back.