How Apple Destroyed The Netbook

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Apple is known for creating revolutionary devices that redefine their product categories and disrupt various markets. Take the iPhone for example, it forced us to reimagine what a smartphone was and how it could be used. But it also made devices like music players obsolete, which began the decline of the iPod. And in this video we’re going to explore a very similar situation as it pertains to the netbook.
Now before we discuss how Apple destroyed the netbook industry, we need to begin by defining what a netbook even is. And that includes understanding the state of the tech market back when netbooks were first introduced. In 2007 Apple introduced the iPhone, which was arguably the first modern smartphone consumers had ever seen, and it helped establish the beginnings of the mobile tech revolution. You see, up until that point, mobile devices weren’t very capable machines. Sure you could answer emails and do some rudimentary internet browsing with something like the Blackberry, but there were serious limitations that prevented it from delivering a desktop-class experience. iPods were also very popular, but they were designed for very specific purposes. For example, listening to music or watching tv shows and movies you bought from iTunes. And keep in mind modern tablets like the iPad hadn’t been invented yet.
So if you wanted a traditional desktop experience on the go, your only option was to lug around a notebook computer. Which weren’t as thin and light in 2007 as they are today. Many computer manufactures identified this gap in the market, and decided to bring back a product concept that had been attempted in the past, but failed virtually every time. And that product was the netbook. Netbooks were basically miniaturized notebook computers that included only the most essential features in an attempt to be as affordable, compact, and light as possible. Now as I mentioned, this history of product goes back before 2007, but had never seen much commercial success.
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[@gamestargs6386]

1GB ram is what destroyed the damn things...

[@Lauren_C]

The sad part being the original iPad had a mere 256MB of RAM.

[@realvivifromloona]

+Lauren C But the optimization was what really helped it

[@sosopwsi829Jjw9]

@@Lauren_C But it didn't run MACos

[@hexostatus4658]

@@sosopwsi829Jjw9 but it’s compatible with the macOS, due to the infrastructure

[@orion1983uk]

I'd say it was the Atom processors being so pitiful coupled with the manufacturers loading them up with so much bloatware. A netbook installed with a clean copy of Windows 7 and none of the manufacturers crap ran considerably better, although they were still slow. Weirdly, the final netbooks on sale before they were replaced by the likes of the HP Stream (which in were also awful) were actually alright. The final ones, such as the Packard Bell me69bmp, used a baytrail Celeron and was actually quite useable (and dirt cheap to buy).

[@Raja995mh33]

in the last several weeks, not a single poll was shown to me in my mobile activity feed. Thanks KZbin...

[@ishankumar4471]

@Tim for me it's never ever shown up. I've subbed and turned on notificationd

[@rayzuniga1704]

Ishan Kumar it showed up on mine

[@32BitLink]

I hate how the iPad Version of KZbin has no support for polls or posts

[@AbdAbdAbdAbd]

@@32BitLink me too. i'm on a android tablet 😣

[@Teknickel_ftw]

It works on a netbook lol.

[@mems9953]

Today, we call netbooks a chromebook running linux.

[@s3cr3tpassword]

Not quite though. Netbooks cheap out on a lot of things like screen, keyboard, processors but chrome books are pretty well spec and usually have good screen and full keyboard.

[@baoquoc3710]

@@s3cr3tpassword galaxy chromebook for example, the most ultra-high specced chromebook i have ever imagine

[@nitinanku]

Seven V Most schools have migrated from iPads or cheap windows laptops to Chromebooks now.

[@shakinspider]

krishnugget that’s a downgrade

[@nitinanku]

@@shakinspider A very large downgrade

[@oompaloompa3762]

If Steve Jobs was still alive he would be proud of the IPad

[@haisonpham1431]

@@TheSwagGuy5000 How would you know? You're not him.

[@badmoose01]

“who wants a stylus?!”

[@ZaneDalton]

badmoose01 ooooof 😂

[@bullet01l30]

@@badmoose01 that aged horribly

[@augustogalindo8687]

TheSwagGuy5000 actually Steve always wanted a buttonless device, so he would love it, Steve also liked simplicity, so he would have loved the flat design. And he was also a fan of removing old technology, like CDs or Adobe Flash, so he would not complain about no headphone jack.

[@GuaridaEstudio]

The best netbook was, ironically, the 11 inch Macbook Air.

[@aeonjoey3d]

yep, one of the only reasons i ever gave apple computers a shot was because all of my coder friends, ran WINDOWS on MacBook Airs, I was like - is this an ironic hack? and they were like... "no it's the best windows laptop on earth" I was shook.

[@aravindr4986]

Sony vaio 👌

[@parkeast7264]

GPD Pocket 2.

[@constancies]

I have that one. Wish it had an SD card reader.

[@mikaelkildal-leblond3806]

true

[@joelchrono]

This channel is great, it's not about reviews or apps, just history, nice essays and interesting topics. You are a great channel, keep it up!

[@asifmetal666]

This guy made video about that sim ejector pin! As if no one knew it before!! How the hell this is a surprise for anyone

[@joelchrono]

@@asifmetal666 I literally just watched that video and it had stuff that I didn't know about the thing. Yes, it might be useless knowledge, but it was well made, offered new information and is less than 3 minutes, how can that be harmful or bad? I dont even use Apple devices but you took the time to hate on something like this, why?

[@cadenchurchill4296]

Amazing how the iPad and ultra-portable PCs/Macs have basically replaced these. My portable computing setup is entirely my HP Spectre X360 and an iPad Air 3 - with me mostly using my Air 3 on the go.

[@kelly3014]

I thought iPads were stupid back in the day. Now, my iPad doesn’t leave my side. In fact, I’m watching this video on it right now!!

[@paowoww]

the iPad was the best Apple product. You can’t change my mind.

[@Anigeek1246]

Same, I’m also watching in it. Rn.

[@ThalesNilton]

Same! ✌️😎

[@JoeMama-qw1gb]

Same

[@ghostrock9254]

because it was all thought out product. people just love to judge or quickly assumed something they dont know

[@EddieFly00]

I remember when I was in middle school we had to use these. They all ran on Windows Vista in 2013 and they took forever to start up and once loaded up, the class period was almost finished. I remember specifically one time when one died right in front of me and started smoking up after running too hot during startup! (It only worked when connected to a power source. 😂) The next year I didn't see a single netbook and the year or two after we started getting Chromebooks. Those days are long gone and now I've got my own MacBook Pro in college (the one with the touch bar).

[@clintgolub1751]

Dude, you’ve seen so much change in just under a decade. The iPad 2 quite truly revolutionized my college life, and wirelessly shooting up my Power Points through the Apple TV adapter on the projector in my Comm 101 classroom blew everyone away coming from this strange new “iPad”. Now as an adult, I enjoy using the iPad for like 70% of my computer needs, and adore the Mac for the rest.

[@FredOlv]

The guy from 6:27 appears at the apple conference 5:08 lol Nice video btw, my first netbook was a HP mini 210. I loved that thing.

[@gq_barry]

Whoa man, you have sharp eyes

[@ghhhhhhhhhhhjjjjjjjjjj]

how did you see that

[@ImStian]

I noticed that as well

[@ghostrock9254]

wow you notice that.. in my eyes all white skinned western looks the same. Like indians

[@Doublepulse]

The way the mobile workspace evolved is just insane. I remember being in highschool with those $200-400 acer netbooks which was just enough to play Runescape or GTA San Andreas and run windows movie maker.

[@Itsameemario]

you're young and have no say asshole try scrolly wheels and no gui, MS-DOS command prompt oldie

[@MikeKobela]

I always thought the 11 inch MacBook Air was also a major blow to netbooks. True, it wasn't cheap, but it offered a very light and small notebook that didn't skimp on power, nor usability. No wonder they advertised it as "what if an iPad and a MacBook hooked up" back then.

[@doctordothraki4378]

It's as if they hooked up a keyboard to an iPad [turns head to see Apple making first party keyboards for iPads]

[@staringcorgi6475]

@@doctordothraki4378they did that for the ipad pro almost a decade ago

[@sloppynyuszi]

Small cheap laptops are still around, just nobody bandies the term netbooks around that's all. I love my iPad, but I think the original criticism was quite warranted. If you want a netbook today, you can still find 10" low powered cheap windows laptops easy. No one is calling them a netbook anymore.

[@NiGHTSnoob]

Netbooks just diverged into Chromebooks, Ultrabooks, and Transforming Tablets. They're all fundamentally the same idea just with very slight variances.

[@sloppynyuszi]

NiGHTSnoob I think Chromebooks are a close thing, but you can buy a $200 10 or 11” HP windows laptop. It’s under powered, small, cheap, runs windows or Linux. It’s exactly what a netbook is. Ultrabooks costing as much as they do and tablets practically being a different thing, you can say they are something that took over the netbook. A $50 Amazon fire tablet could be argued that’s the obvious successor. It emails, KZbin’s and surfs the web. With Chromebooks basically just being an alternative OS for the form factor and super cheap compact laptops still being for sale. I think it’s just the term that went away. The device is still available everywhere.

[@jamesslick4790]

@@sloppynyuszi With the right Linux distro, You'd be surprised what an "under powered" machine can do!

[@carl-oscarjernberg2012]

No, not a Windows laptop. I bought a used MacBook Pro 13" mid 2010 some years ago. Could update the OS several times until now High Sierra 10.13.6 always for free! It runs like a dream. The only things that hangs some times are Word and Excel nothing else. The Windows punishment has an end, no more Microsoft crap for me. I recently also got a used iPhone 7 and an iPad 9.7" both 128 GB and now iOS 12.4, soon to be iOS 13. Had Samsungs and a LG Spirit LGE before with too small memory, every time I needed an other App I had to erase several other, got fed up with it.

[@brianchan8]

69

[@tamarockstar09]

I worked at staples during this time. In 2007-2012. And no one bought the netbook. We sold one like once every 3-4 weeks. So we only had like 4 models on display and 2 on hand one of each and the other 2 had to be ordered.

[@wclifton968gameplaystutorials]

there were Tablets around the time of the iPhone's release but they were big, clunky and usually came with a full sized keyboard instead of an on screen keyboard and used a resistive touch display requiring the use of stylus instead of using a capacitive touch display like on the iPhone but at least they ran the full version of Windows (or maybe even Linux) with the same CPUs as a regular Laptop since all they really did was take a laptop, change the laptop hinge so that the display can sit on the keyboard while in usage, as well as changing the display type in order to support a touch screen.

[@JackEstacio]

wclifton968 tablets then were only seen on pimp my ride

[@wclifton968gameplaystutorials]

@@JackEstacio tablets then were quite expensive so I can see why you'd think that they'd only been seen on TV.....?

[@promiseomiponle810]

He said *modern* tablets yo

[@aeonjoey3d]

you're thinking of windows "tablet pc edition" laptops, they were aweful, i set up hundreds of them, non stop shit show every one of them. a lot of that can be blamed on microsoft too though, for a horrible out of box experience (the average tablet pc of that era took 1-4 hours on first boot just to install it's own OS from it's own HD) and only to be hamstringed by a lousy windows 95/98/ME UI with the worst handwriting recognition ever devised, terrible viewing angles on low-res 'rotating/flipping/tilting' screens, and huge thick plastic chasis, and don't even get me started on battery life on those. plus carrying around an external floppy and cd drive.

[@aravindr4986]

Neonode n1m(2005) had on screen keyboard,swipe to unlock and other gestures.LG prada was the first capacitive touchscreen smartphone.Apple combined all these technology and features in iphone.

[@fenn_fren]

I'm glad I live in an era where light and powerful laptops are very affordable.

[@rhebucks_zh]

if you accept 3kg, you can get lots of power for under $1200

[@XDboyLolz]

What actually destroyed netbooks in short words: Microsoft, Windows 7 Starter Edition, MacBook Air, iPad

[@TheMinecraftNerd2014]

I thought that the netbook market was brought down because of the fact that most of them used Intel Atom CPUs, which effectively had a time-bomb within them.

[@dupasraja9885]

2:33 I want to taste that Pepsi, which is made with real sugar.

[@ephektz]

Hello, old comment. Pepsi with real sugar is available where I am. That’s all we buy.

[@lenadams854]

@@ephektz They still sell those?

[@ephektz]

@@lenadams854 Indeed. It’s usually in stock at Target or HEB.

[@siddharthagupta8528]

“Netbooks are dead” *Laughs in school chromebooks*

[@grxgghxrpxr]

They're running an operating system that is much more lightweight to run on the specs that these laptops have and have bigger trackpads and keyboards so are a better experience.

[@AngelMCAnimation]

Woah just woah .. Edit : I miss you Steve jobs

[@ninadsojitra4682]

We**

[@awoowie_nate]

"I've release the iPad and it was so successful" "What did it cost?" "Depressions"

[@javiercorre]

When I got my 2rd gen iPod touch and eventually the iPhone 3g I always thought that a device similar to the iPod touch and iPhone but bigger would be a great device for content consuming, months later they announced the iPad and I still remember all the criticism from tech bloggers, however I loved the idea and got the iPad day one. Since then I always have had an iPad and even though I have the galaxy note 9 I still the use iPad every day.

[@Emporkommling]

Watching this on my iPad, and I owned a netbook during the late 2000’s 😂

[@AbsolutelyRedundant]

Idk why but my idiot brain bought the $1800 MacBook Air Gen1 . The next year I facepalmed by self so hard it left a mark 😂😂😭

[@dani0479]

Same. I had owned two HP notebook and one Lenovo. Nostalgic times.

[@JoeJpOfficial]

Great vid!" You should make a video about Macbooks glowing logo. Why it dissapeared

[@user-oe1nt4pp8n]

Disappeared because it was merely a cosmetic feature. All it did was make the device thicker, and Apple's products have been going slimmer and slimmer by the year. Apple would slightly throttle their Macs instead of increasing the speed of its fans. It's simply a user experience and enjoyment thing. And Apple is really good at that.

[@tgvr73]

The new displays are too thin to have the glowing logo powered by the backlight. If you shine a light on the glowing logo, you could see the apple logo on your display, which is now rectified with the removal of the glowing logo. It used to look cool though.

[@generalgrievous2582]

alysdexia you must be fun at parties

[@StaticVapour590]

It did not fill the high standards of Apple

[@jamesslick4790]

Battery killer for NO REAL USE.

[@Archivist42]

I remember being one of those people who thought the iPad was pointless. I think I was more specifically in the “ why do I want a giant iPod touch” camp. Then I got an iPad 4, fell in love and have been buying iPads since. Currently on the iPad Pro, and still loving it!!!!

[@violian5]

Your video is right on point. I had an HP and Acer netbook before getting my first iPad. Due to the weak specs, pretty much the only thing I used my tiny Netbook for was web-browsing. The ONLY reason I caved-in to the iPad (I was very skeptical of the iPad when it 1st came out) was because I had put in my 2-week's notice at Target during that time - and I wanted to take advantage of my employee discount before losing it. Turned out that was the best decision ever. The iPad costed the same and allowed me to do all of those "recreational" activity (e.g. web surfing, reading articles, e-mails) better; and is much more portable.

[@Itsameemario]

shoulda bought a laptop and get off celerons. newb

[@Brad-cb2dt]

The Chromebook is the netbook perfected. No clunky pc software or desktop OS, just a browser and the web. And now they are essentially android tablets too. I bought a Chromebook on a whim and fell in love. It’s just a great experience.

[@prismstudios001]

I own 3 PCs of various ages, and seldom ever use them....I tend to live on my iPad....Im an illustrator, and even that is covered now.Ironically typed on my old Kindle, cause it needed some love.

[@evilj]

Netbooks were born out of necessity in the times of 2008 recession, when many people could not afford full power laptops. Apple didn't kill it, Apple refused to enter low-cost market ;)

[@thr33nine]

This is the real answer. The netbook killed the netbook. This was not a product that was meant to last long in the market. Everyone knew it was a huge compromise. No one was confused about that.

[@abhishekagrahari4184]

But the irony is i am watching this video on Windows Laptop. But i must say that phones are far more comfortable.

[@bluescluessuperagent]

How is that ironic?

[@NDHFilms]

I use a netbook for computing on the go: a GPD Pocket 2 running Lubuntu. I use it because it fits in my pocket, it gives me a better desktop experience than a tablet, and it runs on mostly free/libre software.

[@1syncgg]

Why do you sound like tech Altar ?

[@musicdefinesgravity]

Not even close..

[@cmooreHD]

He doesn’t ... but I am shocked there are fans of Tech Altar. Love that guy.

[@四季-i5k]

Me receiving my first smartphone: a slate??? Me when first seeing an iPad: a slate...? Me now seeing a laptop: a slate...? Me years from now seeing anything: A SLATE!?

[@dgw4049]

in the future... traditional desktops & laptops will be used by people who need to type... ie everyone

[@LarisB]

My English teacher still uses a Windows 7 netbook even today! And she even used it for school-work.

[@k2u364]

Bought my first iPad in 2013 and have been loving it ever since

[@hellotherechild8086]

Thats good

[@GRCanalYT]

Apple Explained: How Apple destroyed the Netbook Me: Horrible battery life, horrible network, horrible software, AND OF COURSE, APPLE'S REVOLUTIONARY IPAD

[@GRCanalYT]

SPAM COMMENT BOTS ARE NOT ALLOWED

[@matthewsjardine]

Thanks for making this video. Apple delivered a double blow, 1) iPad and 2) MacBook Air. The iPad not enough like a computer for your needs? The MacBook Air is thin, light and easy to take anywhere you might need it. As the iPad got better and the MacBook Air got smaller (i.e. 11 inches), there was simply no market left.

[@FirstChann3L4Lif3]

Like an ad lol 😂

[@hussienqam]

The thumbnail looks like Steve Jobs found out Tim Cook took a crap In his coffee.

[@giulialana2815]

I just realized I used to have an acer netbook like the one you showed at 3:55 back in the day, I just didn’t know it was called a netbook, for me it was just a small pc

[@thestorydude787]

Important lesson of the day: Critics always get it wrong every time a product like the iPad is introduced.

[@iielysiumx5811]

Netbooks still exist, they’re called chrome books

[@havenmarie6277]

Yeah there only used for school😂

[@WaywardPondering]

My roommate in the Army back in 2010 used a netbook for all his main and only computer. I, on the other hand, was using a top of the line MacBook Pro. He would mercilessly tease me over my expensive Apple computer that performed the same tasks as his $400 netbook. I still recall how he howled with laughter when OS X was incompatible with the Army websites and software that we sometimes used.

[@awesomecomputers7076]

Pcs will never go away, there's always a gaming PC with an army of PC gamers

[@SecondTake123]

the new iPad Pro is amazing! I also have the iPad Mini 4 and I love it. I miss Steve Jobs and his innovations.

[@lanand9397]

Neither of which were innovations by Steve Jobs...

[@Hybrid225]

Dude my old computer had an 1 hour battery, and drained 5% every 1 minute...

[@plshelp]

remember when my parents prefered buying a new netbook every 1-2 years instead of buying a good laptop that lasted. glad i finally switched to the mac side of things (macbook pro 15" 2018).

[@SemiMono]

So... Several years ago I bought a netbook with an AMD processor because it was cheaper and more portable and, ironically, got better battery life than any other laptop I was considering. What did I use it for? Developing 3D video games that would run on a mid-range gaming PC. You can't exactly do that with an ipad, but with a bit of work you can do it with a mid-range Chromebook. For the record, that netbook was a one of a kind using a very rare AMD processor that provided the graphics power of an it, making 3D game development in unity possible. I wasn't making a cell-shaded low-poly game. I was developing a voxel polygonization engine. People think they need more power... What they need is more efficient software. Web browsing was as slow as generating millions of polygons, and watching a KZbin video was as demanding as rendering millions of polygons (yes, I got up to millions of polys on it). That computer cost less than $400, got 4-6 hours of battery life, ran windows 8, and weighed less than a MacBook pro with a better keyboard than a modern MacBook (minus the backlight) and more ports. I am really excited for a new line of AMD integrated graphics. Sorry, nostalgia rant.

[@richardkim9952]

The MacBook Air killed the netbook as much as the iPad.

[@jamesslick4790]

The MacBook Air WAS a netbook.

[@idmmxx1871]

For the costs in the production of the chassis type. The type X chassis.

[@TheSektorz]

You've become a big youtuber and your channel is making thousands of dollars. It's about time you get some soundproof foam. Other than that - I've been enjoying this channel for many months. I like how you made it work with just pictures.

[@RWL2012]

sound *absorbing* foam would make more sense. he needs to get rid of the room echoes, not stop the sound going into other rooms necessarily.

[@YesToCookies23]

The iPad did destroy the netbook market at first, but then it had a resurgence with the Chromebooks. The fact is that people still wanted laptop functionality at a low price, and the iPad didn’t have many of those features. Most notably, the lack of a proper file management system, a desktop browser, and external storage support made the iPad more prone to competition from Chromebooks. With that said, iPadOS finally gives those features to the iPad which means it could finally kill off the netbook. The iPad, with iPadOS, gains most of the laptop functionality that people wanted and it still retains the touch-oriented UI that people like. At this point, Chromebooks have no purpose left. It’s not as capable as the iPad on iPadOS due to the lack of app support for Chrome OS. Not even price can save Chromebooks because iPads start at $330 or even lower when bought in other retailers. Overall, iPadOS would be the final nail in the coffin for the small market netbooks and Android tablets have left.

[@birchtree5884]

>Came to learn about netbooks >Ended up discovering caffeinated chocolate

[@Luke-lj1hb]

All computer companies be like: LET THE RISE OF CHROMEBOOK BEGIN!!!

[@baxterBoo95]

Always love an Apple Explained video, keep it up! :)

[@AppleExplained]

Thanks Amy!

[@emmag8620]

@@AppleExplained Should be more like Apple answered

[@emmag8620]

@@AppleExplained You are great

[@jayb8934]

Netbooks still do things that iPads can't, like run a full desktop OS with real file management and multitasking.

[@Andrew982_]

Netbooks still can’t do that very well because of their weak hardware.

[@aravindr4986]

@@Andrew982_ it was possible because of the invention of transistors(bell labs) and microprocessor(intel)

[@charlescampuz5812]

aravind r Still ran like dog shit. You would rather sacrifice those two things for an iPad or outright buy a high-end Laptop instead of dealing with a Netbook.

[@TheCherrybuster]

My mom actually made her entire thesis on a Asus Eee

[@gia9551]

I did an exchange with a rich school and the choir director had an iPad in the first month of them being sold. Tripped me out

[@TranTek]

Netbook was pretty useless we only use them in data center for pinging and trace route etc light stuff test

[@TechTalks685]

I would argue the modern day netbook is basically a chrome book

[@chrom0xide123]

I have the feeling the macbook air would also fit to the needs of a netbook. Or also the microsoft tablets, because they run windows, so not just mobileapps. But both are too expensive to purchase just for the needs of occasional mobile usage of a computer. Netbooks were also from a time when smartphone-displays were to small for longtime-usage.

[@steevorific]

Memories, I forgot all about the netbook and the negative press surrounding the iPad intro.

[@cosmoreed3461]

Funny how Steve Jobs said that when the 12 inch MacBook is basically a netbook 2018

[@cosmoreed3461]

They’re just cheap laptops the MacBook Air is $100 cheaper

[@ricksandstorm]

I miss netbooks. Tablets with attachable keyboards are to flimsy to use in your lap. I agree with that they weren't really good at anything spec-wise but the form factor was fantastic. Also, tablets are much more oriented towards consumption + quite limited in what they can do due to lack of proper software while the netbook was limited by its specs (which could be upgraded while a tablet cannot).

[@Donnut123]

Thanks for making this video. In 2010-ish I had a Lenovo netbook with an intel Atom, and I was wondering where they went. My next computer was the 11" MacBook Air, which was SO much more powerful. Now I have a 12" MacBook with an i7 (really an m7) and 16gb RAM.

[@drmrmcmister]

iPad in a nutshell You want a keyboard? BUY A DAMN OVEEPRICED ACCESSORIE You want ports? BUY A OVERPRICED DONGLE

[@constancies]

I hope Apple can get their act together and make another great product in the near future.

[@Benzona]

It's wild how you posted this right before they completely changed desktop and notebook computers forever by making ARM devices that didn't suck ass, now im genuinely optimistic their crazy vr headset can pan out. apple's future seems brighter now than its ever been lol

[@nicholasd7731]

When you realize you are watching this on or near an iPad.

[@Alexei1727]

well….. i have a toshiba satelite click mini XD

[@angelo_villones]

Looking back in hindsight, netbooks never really died out, but instead evolved into the forms of Chromebooks and cheap Windows laptops. In this perspective, Apple killed the name, but not the concept. There's a reason why Apple is aggressively trying to make the iPad as powerful of a device as possible with their increasingly powerful processors and iPadOS. Apple has killed off the netbooks at the time, and now they are aiming to kill off Chromebooks and budget Windows laptops.

[@rubyslippers1935]

I’ve always found Apple much easier to use. When I was in high school, our computer class was all Microsoft, and I couldn’t understand most of it, even the basics. Then that year, my parents brought home a MacBook Pro for me (I was always on the family computer writing stories). Never went back to Microsoft again!

[@EF.BE.I]

I’m watching this on my 2018 11 inch iPad Pro...I love it...does everything I need I plan on getting a keyboard for it next month. And I’m a android guy lol.until Apple moves to 120hz screens there’s no way I’m getting a iphone

[@therealestategamer5659]

me: these thingz are bad also me: using a chromebook

[@Dragonblaster1]

I never saw the point of the iPad as anything more than a content consumption device capable of running mobile phone games. I constantly travelled all over the world for work, and became a fan of the Surface Pro as my personal tech travelling companion. In 2015, I started hearing about the iPad Pro, and thought "all it really needs is trackpad, support for external drives, and mouse support". When the RAM in my Surface Pro 4 failed in late 2020, I looked to buy another Surface Pro, but then heard that my three caveats had been met, I ended up with an 11" M1 iPad Pro 11" WiFi/5G with all the trimmings. It is the perfect travel companion for when overseas travel becomes a reality, and the shoulder bag I keep it in, even with a 20,000 mAh power cell on board, is light enough to take down to the pub or coffee shop without one swapping shoulders, and will easily fit under an aircraft seat. It's an amazing piece of kit.

[@aioannou1]

Apple didnt destroy the netbook because it didnt die . Now they just call them Cheap laptops or tablet -with keyboards and ultrabooks still exist and they destroyed the tablet sales. Original netbooks where by design BAD laptops with too small screen to work . they just got better and bigger

[@mentorzariqi8880]

6:06 Apple in 2010:* removes keyboard & trackpad on netbooks * Apple in 2020: * introduces magic keyboard * Is there a trend that im not getting here?

[@Teknickel_ftw]

I still prefer my netbook any day. Even if my current desktop is 11426% faster.

[@moremoarkh9175]

In alternate universe: the iPhone is just minimilised ipad

[@iicarplaying1930]

Lol nice one dude 👍

[@thenormalone6753]

The iPad is such a versatile device that people rly had problems imagining a good use case. Now, an iPad rly can be your only computer

[@BOBXFILES2374a]

I got a Netbook, after reading "Netbooks for Dummies," but.....used it at the library to surf the Net. That was about all.

[@WasguckstdudieURlan]

It would be cool if they allow xCode and Androidstudio to run on the iPad

[@prabhnoorhans9765]

iOS 13 better make the iPad Pro a Pro device for everyone and not just for artists. It has the potential to destroy ultrabooks.

[@songyani3992]

I mean if it has fully-fledged Microsoft office suite on it, meaning you can make, receive and send ppts or words or excels solely on the pro, then it pretty much could

[@Psychiatry.321]

Apple  only iPhones and macs users can see this emoji  رضي الله عنها

[@bullet01l30]

congratulations do you feel extra special

[@Sol_7]

First To admit that I'm not first.

[@Gooduttp229]

My grandmother accidentally enter a competition and won an iPad. And I found my grandmothers netbook and she said i can have it. Now i just wondering what to do with it since i had an ipad ever since 2014.

[@peterlejon2168]

I had a small asus eee pc. It served me well on the road. But when the iPad came out, the eee pc went the way of the dodo

[@QuarioQuario54321]

Netbooks could live in low-income countries and as first computers for kids.

[@objective7042]

The netbook was originally design for school children in poor 3rd world countries. Called "One laptop per child".

[@nmlss]

I'm not gonna lie, I was at that 27% that thought the iPad was just a bigger iPod Touch, and by that time I already was a long time Apple user. Eight years later (few months back actually) I bought my first iPad (a Pro with the Apple Pencil 2) and I'll be honest… it's the best piece of hardware I've ever seen for artists. I've NEVER drawn so much and felt more inspired and wanting to start doodling as I do now. I look at my Cintiq tablet now and I feel sorry that I'm not gonna use it ever again.

[@_ginock_]

I might be alone in this but I couldn’t imagine me ever moving away from a laptop and indeed a desktop. I like my iPad but I don’t imagine I will ever use it for serious work. But as I say that is possibly just me.

[@iggytse]

I have an iPhone, iPad mini and a laptop. The iPad mini was a gift and probably the least used device, even more so now the latest iOS doesn’t support it. Originally wanted to use it to transfer photos from my camera at events then upload to social media however Facebook doesn’t allow full resolution uploads from its app or mobile web browser so never implemented in the field. Would possibly need an Ultrabook to do this effectively.

[@pokepress]

I still have a netbook that I use. It has an old version of iTunes that still has power search for the iTunes Store. I also use it for monitoring when I stream on KZbin.

[@LisaTherobloxer]

Fun fact: the first fully touchscreen phone was the LG Prada.

[@TheSteveSteele]

The netbook conversation went all the back to Jobs’ and Ellison’s neighborhood walks in the mid- ‘90s. Reporters were listening to what both had to say and wrote stories about it. It was somewhat framed in the Windows ‘95 era of dominance. I think the first successful shot fired was the clamshell G3 PowerBook. It was like a netbook, but focused on wireless internet. Right product and the right time. However the iPad is certainly the most important device to talk about. For one, it’s just now coming into its own as we see more separation between an iPad experience and an iPhone experience. The current iPad Pro is poised to do great things once Apple and developers work out a few issues. The hardware is certainly capable. I love my iPad Pro.

[@dotapark]

Story of iPad makes me thinking a lot. People acting like Jobs was a such of marketing genius to everything sounds charming, but iPad announcements was failure until it actually on the store. It was just good product that sold.

[@TheDeepShadow]

Why Instagram still don't make an app for the iPad ? it's so annoying to install the iPhone version, the images are small, the app does not take the full screen

[@stefanbleoju824]

Insta on Android tablets is awesome. U should switch to android *its so much better*

[@4rtificial1dioty]

The initial devastating reviews of the iPad is by no small part due to Steve Jobs himself apparently communicating to the consumers previously that an iPad product category would be only a gimmicky hybrid of iPhone and iMac. The alleged hybris became more explicitly criticized when the Apple Pencil (the companion to the iPad) was introduced: Everyone was quoting how disgusted Jobs had been talking about stylusses when introducing the very first iPhone to the world. It felt to many that Apple was doing a 180°.

[@bedoinuk]

My very same HP 2133 was later replaced by MacBook Air 11. A much better computer, but for 4x the price it should be...

[@huggyuk]

Yet another awesome video. Keep it up.

[@iika09]

I'm such a big Apple fan! Here is the order i got Apple's products and when: iPhone 4S made in 2011: I bought it in 2012 iPad 1 made in 2010: I bought it in 2013 iPad 4 made in idk: I bought it in 2013 iPod Nano made in idk: I bought it in 2015 iPad 2 made in 2012: I bought it in 2017 iPhone 6 made in idk: I bought it in 2016 MacBook Pro (2017): I bought it in 2019

[@iika09]

Now you know my love for Apple. :-)