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Samsung might be quitting netbook market
KOREAN ELECTRONICS OUTFIT Samsung might be quitting the netbook business if a report on a French language web site is to be believed.
According to the report that we begrudgingly ran through Google Translate, Samsung has told its partners of its plans to shuffle off the netbook business in 2012 and will focus on ultrabooks and ultraportable 11.6 and 12 inch models instead.
"Following the introduction of our new strategy in 2012, we stop the product range in 10.1 [inch] (Netbook) in Q1 2012 for the benefit of Ultraportables products (11.6 and 12 inches) and ultrabooks to be launched in 2012," says the email that is reproduced at the Blogeee.net web site.
We've asked Samsung to comment and perhaps confirm that this is the case, and are waiting for a response.
In the meantime we can speculate about the decision and suggest that it might be a reflection of what has been acknowledged for some time - that netbooks are pretty boring when compared to tablets and, despite not being like for like equivalents, have become so in the minds of punters, who often prefer the latter.
While netbooks might have had their day, the same is not said about ultrabooks, and analysts who are paid to do this sort of thing are already suggesting that they will swagger into the sales charts and waltz off with just under half of the market within a couple of years.
Samsung also has a stake in the tablet market, but there it has found itself bogged down in ongoing patent disputes with Apple over its designs. µ
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@jack
The fact that you find the "wit" in this commercial "hilarious", and failed to grasp the irony of my posts speaks volumes to your intellectual sophistication.
PS. I have owned one apple product in my life since my Apple 2E. Nice try....the tired and asinine: "Must be an apple fanboy!" accusation also stands as testament to your mental capacity.
If an Ultrabook is just another laptop, then the iPad is just another (small) laptop without a keyboard. Expect to see ultralight, ultrathin UBs in 2012 with Touch screens, wireless keyboards and Win 8. Just another laptop ? I don't think so. Do your homework.
Yes, Apple is a leader and Jobs was a visionary, but even he proudly said "Good artists copy, great artists steal". He got the mouse from Xerox's PARC.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW0DUg63lqU
BUT YOU KNOW WHAT APPLE NEVER STOLE NETBOOK IDEA BECAUSE IT WAS A INFERIOR PRODUCT, HOWEVER NETBOOKS DID MAKE A LOT OF MONEY FOR CERTAIN MANUFACTURERS. (THAT MEANS IDIOTS PAID WAY TOO MUCH FOR THEM, OOPS DID I JUST SAY THAT?)
ULTRABOOK WILL BE ANOTHER DUD. LOOK GUYS ITS JUST A HIGH END LAPTOP. NETBOOK IS JUST A LOW END LAPTOP. THEY ARE BOTH LAPTOP COMPUTERS! LAPTOPS AINT SPECIAL NO MORE, OKAY?
Hey ade can you give me a list of companies that haven't copied anything from anyone?
@richard
Inane commercial? Most of us found it to be simply hilarious. It's gotten quite a bit of attention all over the web and in the news. The fact that you failed to capture the point of the humor says a lot about you.
Quit being such a butthurt fanboy.
@jack
Yes, I agree. Samsung is supposed to be for Baristas who define themselves only as Baristas.
Low-self esteem, dedicated Baristas. Is that you Jack? You seem to like the inane commmerical...
Hey Phil, you do realise that Apple throughout their history have copied other people devices and tweaked them and then sold them on as their great idea don't you?
Guess not...
@Phil
The sad thing about Apple fanboys is they actually believe that. It's just too bad Samsung products aren't for people who think themselves "creative."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWnunavN4bQ&hd=1
Suck on that one while you're at it.
As there is no Apple Netbook available.
Samsung cannot copy their design language.
They therefore have no choice but to abandon the netbook market and concentrate on things they can copy.
Phones, tablets, laptops, etc.