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Re: can crowdfunding bring back the netbook?

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Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> quotes:
>> "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"...
> 
> And yet they?ve sold very well. Could it be that lots of other people
> have a practical use for them, despite his personal dislike?  Perhaps
> he should do some market research into why they're successful before
> going into competition with them.

Exactly.  The final sentence likely sums up why he does not understand:

   "I tried one, and it's awkward to use it for anything else than
   browsing the Web"

What he seems blinded to is the fact that for the vast majority of the
computing public, this is simply the *only* use they have at all for
any form of computing device.

He is not the target audience of the tablets.

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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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