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can crowdfunding bring back the netbook?

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From the «sent from my netbook, as a matter of fact» department:
Title: Can Crowdfunding Bring Back The Netbook?
Author: help@slashdot.org
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2017 18:44:00 -0400
Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/TVgBUilS878/can-crowdfunding-bring-back-the-netbook

"The mini-laptop's market niche got swamped by the iPad and the phablet,"
writes Salon, since the stripped-down hardware of tablets made them cheaper to
produce. But now netbooks could be making a grassroots-fueled comeback, "thanks
to the lower costs in electronics manufacturing and the fact that individual
investors can come together to crowdfund projects." An anonymous reader quotes
Salon: Michael Mrozek, the Germany-based creator of creator of the DragonBox
Pyra, says "I never understood why they were gone in the first place. I have no
idea why you would use a tablet. I tried one, and it's awkward to use it for
anything else than browsing the Web"... He has already managed to raise several
hundred thousand dollars through a private pre-order system set up on his
geek's paradise online store. Once those initial orders have been filled,
Mrozek said he will probably start up a mainstream crowdfunding campaign for
his Linux handheld... "The niche was always there, but thanks to the Internet
and crowdfunding, it's easy to reach everyone who's interested in such a device
so even a niche product still gets you enough users to sell it. That wasn't
possible 10 years ago." Meanwhile, in just under two weeks Planet Computer
raised $446,000 on Indiegogo, more than double the original $200,000 goal for
their netbook-like Gemini computer (with a keyboard designed by the creator of
the original Psion netbook). Planet's CEO Janko Mrsic-Flogel says "It's a bit
like Volkswagen bringing back the Beetle," and predicts that the worldwide
demand for netbooks could reach 10 million a year.

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can crowdfunding bring back the netbook? RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2017-03-13 00:53 +0000
  Re: can crowdfunding bring back the netbook? Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2017-03-13 08:41 +0000
    Re: can crowdfunding bring back the netbook? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2017-03-13 10:00 +0000
    Re: can crowdfunding bring back the netbook? Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2017-03-13 12:29 -0400
  Re: can crowdfunding bring back the netbook? Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2017-03-13 15:49 -0400
    Re: can crowdfunding bring back the netbook? RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2017-03-13 21:07 -0400
      Re: can crowdfunding bring back the netbook? Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2017-03-14 08:44 +0000
      Re: can crowdfunding bring back the netbook? Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2017-03-14 15:04 -0400
        Re: can crowdfunding bring back the netbook? mausg@mail.com - 2017-03-15 17:12 +0000

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