According to the latest smartphone sales numbes from Gartner and DisplaySearch's netbook sales numbers, 4.7 million iPhones were shipped in Q3 2008 while a whopping 5.6 million netbooks were sold in the same period.
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Netbooks More Popular Than the Apple iPhone
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Anonymous Wed, 2008-12-10 09:53
6.9 million iPhones were shipped in Q08!
Anonymous Wed, 2008-12-10 10:41
I don't think you're comparing apple to apple. if you want to compare netbook and iphone, you should also include ipod touch as that would be closer, form wise, to a netbook. I don't have the number but you'll find that the combination of iphone/ipod touch will far surpass all netbook sales combined.
tavallai Wed, 2008-12-10 12:14
And Sports-Utility Vehicles outsold 2-door Porsche sports coupes this year.
Remotely intelligible headlines and comparative articles, we knew ye well...
Anonymous Wed, 2008-12-10 12:18
Wait wait, you're comparing the entire netbook market to the sales of a single model of cell phone that accounts for a tiny percentage of all cell phones sold. People actually read this crap?
ANdy Wed, 2008-12-10 12:24
Perhaps the headline for this article should read:
"iPhone nearly outsells entire Netbook market on it's own"
or
"Entire Netbook market only slightly larger than sales of a single unrelated product"
>sigh<
Troskiii (UK) Wed, 2008-12-10 16:30
LOL
If you want to compare Apples with Apples...
How can you compare the "Whopping" sales from the netbook market which includes MANY models from MANY suppliers with the iPhone a single product from one supplier - Apple.
This is an absurd comparison!
Anonymous Wed, 2008-12-10 17:40
even kettles and microwaves were more popular than iphones. over 18 million microwave ovens and 13 million kettles sold in the same period.
Anonymous Wed, 2008-12-10 22:26
Shouldn't you compare netbooks to smartphones? It's not like you're comparing iPhones to Asus Eeepcs, are you?
Lance Ericson Thu, 2008-12-11 01:14
Not to mention the fact that there are many different brands of Netbooks - so you would logically compare them to all of the different brands of Smartphones, right?
Wrong - That would require logic... Sadly missing from this article.
janmorren Thu, 2008-12-11 03:58
Comparing a computer with a smartphone?
Comparing a global sale of a product which is made by several makers with a product that stands on its own from only one maker??
If you want to do that, than your article should say:"Wow, the iPhone nearly kicks the global sales of ALL netbooks".
Strange article this is :-)
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