{"id":273978,"date":"2010-02-03T15:30:56","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T20:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5463395"},"modified":"2010-02-03T15:30:56","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T20:30:56","slug":"arms-ceo-has-incredibly-inflated-expectations-for-netbooks-blockquote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/273978","title":{"rendered":"ARM’s CEO Has Incredibly Inflated Expectations for Netbooks [Blockquote]"},"content":{"rendered":"

It makes total sense for a CEO to be optimistic about the future of his or her product. But predicting that netbooks will grow from 10% of the PC market to 90%? Warren East<\/a>, you’ve gone and lost your mind.<\/p>\n

ARM’s head honcho made the remark in an interview posted today at PC Pro<\/a>. His reasoning? Well… there wasn’t really any. Not that was reported, at least. Probably because it’s an indefensible (though attention-grabbing!) position.<\/p>\n

This is nothing against netbooks as a category! They obviously scratch an itch, especially during a down economy. But unless they get significantly more powerful, there’s no way they’re going to make up the majority of PC sales, much less the super-ultra majority East proposes. And if they do<\/em> become that much more powerful, are they still netbooks? Or are they ultraportables? Or neither, since all these categories are pretty much arbitrary marketingspeak anyway? [PC Pro<\/a> via Slashdot<\/a>]<\/p>\n



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It makes total sense for a CEO to be optimistic about the future of his or her product. But predicting that netbooks will grow from 10% of the PC market to 90%? Warren East, you’ve gone and lost your mind. ARM’s head honcho made the remark in an interview posted today at PC Pro. His […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}