The Macalope Weekly: Tablet trouble

04.08.2012

And this figure roughly doubled in 2009 to 30 million Netbooks shipped.

Ha! How many iPads did Apple sell in its second ...

Yeah, it was 40 million. For 2010, Orr was predicting sales of netbooks would be 43 million. Jeff thought for netbooks!

Aaaand here we are.

Orr was not alone in not being impressed by the iPad. CNet's Molly Wood thought the Kindle Fire would burn the iPad's lunch and, yes, she even used the k-word.