The Ultra-Mobile PC or UMPC was first introduced back in May 2006 to moderate fanfare, and in case you’re wondering how they are doing now, 2.3 years later, the answer seems to be ‘not so good’.
DeviceGuru in fact declares the UMPC form factor to be dead, having been replaced by the netbook, while no one was looking. Why?..the author attributes the demise of the UMPC to feature creep, and thus price, and the unpopularity of its cousin the MID to competition from the smartphone.
The netbook is doing so well that Gartner estimates that the category will ship 50 million units annually by 2012, and some worry that netbook sales will cannibalize the traditional notebook.
The UMPC is dead; long live the netbook! – DeviceGuru, August 29 2008
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