Outstanding Infographic — Rise of Netbooks
A picture is worth a thousand words and the awesome infographics that GigaOM runs are worth millions. I love how a good infographic can tell an entire story with no words, just the graphic. The Rise of Netbooks tells such a story, that of the phenomenal growth of the lowly netbook. A simple glance shows how many netbooks will ship this year, and how that compares to the prior two years. Great job on the graphics! I’m not going to discuss the statistics uncovered, that would spoil your fun. Here’s a little taste, but you need to catch the whole story.
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Either the text or the number of the % is wrong in the graph.
You probably need to recreate it with the proper text/%. Currently the % numbers don’t match the pie portions.
Good eyes, the graph has been corrected.
Cannot wait for the “Rise of the iPad” 2010 Chart. It may be earth rattling and also may drastically affect the 2010 Netbook chart as well.
what’s an iPad? oh yeah, overhyped, overpriced, overdead on arrival- not a netbook killer
While I dig some aspects of the ipad, I don’t think it’s necessarily a “netbook killer” – outside the USA at least, the ipad isn’t price competitive and I think if there’s one thing the rise of netbook popularity has proven, it is that the market for these devices is hugely price elastic. They sold well because they’re incredibly cheap. The ipad, might be cheap for an apple, but in absolute terms, the device is dramatically different and i’m not sure it will cannibalise the market currently held by lower end netbooks.
I wonder how that chart would look had Intel not stalled with Pinetrail in 2009.
I’ve been very happy with my HP 2133 from 2008, but I think I’ll be moving up to a 5102 this year. 2010 is the year netbooks reach maturity.
Revenues flat but unit sales increase? Sounds like companies putting netbooks at the center of their mobile computer strategy are going to have their margins squeezed. Commodification is looming, finding ways to price usefully discriminate is going to be key.
Great work, really cool infographic! It would be interesting to see such statistic in 2011, or later…