what killed netbooks was very simple: subpar build quality, and stagnation.
Netbooks never got better, even when the Atoms got slightly faster or added x64, they were still capped at 2GB RAM until the very end with some AMD netbooks existing.
Also the build quality of consumer laptops of the time was terrible. It's easy to forget how awful consumer laptops were for years compared to the HP Compaq/Elitebook, Dell Latitude, and Lenovo Thinkpads of the time. They were made with cheap plastics, with keyboards that flexed and typed poorly.
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Netbooks never got better, even when the Atoms got slightly faster or added x64, they were still capped at 2GB RAM until the very end with some AMD netbooks existing.
Also the build quality of consumer laptops of the time was terrible. It's easy to forget how awful consumer laptops were for years compared to the HP Compaq/Elitebook, Dell Latitude, and Lenovo Thinkpads of the time. They were made with cheap plastics, with keyboards that flexed and typed poorly.
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everyone acts as if tablets killed them but tablets were actually kind of shit when they were new.
You were paying $500 for an oversized phone and while the Android ones were more capable, they didn't catch on until Amazon made the super cheap Fire tabs and similar tabs began to pop up. Now the $500 tabs are high end ones with pen support and all, and the cheap tabs are for iPad parents to baby their kids so they don't have to actually raise their kid in between wage cucking it.
You were paying $500 for an oversized phone and while the Android ones were more capable, they didn't catch on until Amazon made the super cheap Fire tabs and similar tabs began to pop up. Now the $500 tabs are high end ones with pen support and all, and the cheap tabs are for iPad parents to baby their kids so they don't have to actually raise their kid in between wage cucking it.
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@Pawlicker The Fire Tabs were marketed as high-end e-readers which allowed children and teenagers to bring them to school and pretend to read when in reality they were playing video games, browsing the web, watching porn, etc. They were basically the graphing calculators of the early 2010s.
Schools ended up buying them to the point Lenovo was making school netbooks not branded as such with faster CPUs.