In the long term, netbooks will likely hold their own in an increasingly fragmented mobile device market. Netbook shipments in the United States fell 34 percent from the third quarter of 2009 to the same period in 2010. Gartner estimates that Apple’s bestselling tablet “displaced” 10 to 20 percent of netbook shipments. Analyst: iPad-is-killing-the-netbook argument “a little hard to swallow” because of price gap. Netbooks and touchscreen tablets are both secondary computing devices, and the consumer’s dilemma is deciding which gadget to buy.”]
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