The Tech Revolution
‘Mobile is so much more than a touch screen and a keyboard. The mobile experience is intuitive’
win hands down over netbooks (or any class of PC for that matter) when it comes to consumption activities is the experience of instant “on” and self- explanatory use. Netbooks, despite being cheap and portable with longer- lasting batteries, were still PCs. They still needed to boot up. They still had the start-button context. They were still the PC experience. PC applications have become big and bloated and weren’t necessarily designed for the
minimum requirements of netbooks. Tablet apps, however, are designed to run on that class of hardware and be driven by touch. They therefore align with expectations and don’t present the same frustrations.
Perhaps the last hurrah for netbooks is that they provide us a chance to compare consumption activities on an almost apples-to-apples (pun intended) level with tablets. The end
goal of the two devices is the same, yet the experience is vastly different. The life and death of netbooks offers interesting insight into the future of PCs. As tablet use continues to move from consumption tasks to creation tasks that are appropriately designed for the hardware and mobile experience, the PC itself, like netbooks, will also be deemed an unnecessary class of device.
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