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chrisbernard commented on Rebirth of Slick: Why Design Is Cool and Why It Will Make People Love Your Company Kelsey, this is fantastic. Great work. 3 months ago
chrisbernard commented on Apple, Google and Microsoft’s Size Problem Nice concise analysis. I wonder however if Netbooks as a category are really here to stay. I think they are a category (Like a Yugo) that is borne more out of price than traditional user needs. If traditional laptops can encroach in the pricing territory--and they already are, I wonder if the whole category goes away, or gets replaced by a new type of device that we haven’t seen yet. It’s easy to ignore how much the price of PCs have fallen. We’ve all seen the data about how Apple owns the higher end of the market but what’s lost in that analysis is that many computers that might have competed in that high end a year ago price wise no longer do. ThinkPad and Precision and Latitude lines in the world of PCs used to typically be north of $1.5 or even $2k are now priced in base configurations well below 1k. I won’t comment on the financial implications that this has for OEMs but it’s hard for me to see how many consumers will opts for a three pound netbook when they can get a 4 or 5 pound laptop at more or less the same pricepoint. The key driver for any platforms long success long term is who develops for it and how easy it is to develop for--which in our current or near future world means how easy is it to ultimately develop for one or two platforms at the same time using the same set of skills and assets. The other actors that have weight here are Nokia and RIM and perhap Palm 4 months ago

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