Great piece in Slate on the rise of the netbook craze and its pros and cons for the PC industry.
The reward, especially as companies like Apple reportedly consider a move into the loss-cost, stripped-down PC market, is greater market share and a renewed interest in buying computers at a time when the market could absolutely use some good news.
The risk, however, is the Forrest Gump-like devices (in that their presence outstrips their capability), will suck all the innovation out of the market, leaving little in the way of profits for future R&D.
Apple company forecasted will be have a big drop in global revenue in 2009 without any profit anticipation.
Steve Jobs will die in second quarter 2009 and Apple share will be drop to the worst bottom line in middle of 2009.
Total Apple sales in 2009 will out and fall in the worsen level since it’s found.