OSNews: the iPhone is Not a Netbook

[clevin]

http://www.osnews.com/story/21378/The_iPhone_Is_Not_a_Netbook_I_Can_

OSNews writer think apple's claim that "the iPhone and iPod Touch are capable of filling the netbook niche" is false. So he compiled a list what he can do with a netbook but not iPhone/iPT..
The quotations are extracted, read original article for the full description of each item.

I can upgrade the hardware in my netbook.

I can connect whatever device I want to my netbook.

I can install whatever operating system I want on my netbook.

I can install whatever software I want.

I can use my netbook for data entry.

I can browse the full web on my netbook.

I can play whatever media I want on my netbook.

I can transfer content onto my netbook without being tied to the dreadful iTunes program.

I can easily connect any display/keyboard/mouse combination to my netbook, and use it as a normal desktop .

I can integrate my netbook into any network I might have set up at my home.

As you can see, the key to why an iPhone is nowhere near a netbook is because a netbook is a standard PC, which means you get all the freedom that has become vital to the PC world. An iPhone is not a netbook because it doesn't come even close to the amount of freedom a normal PC (and thus a netbook) can offer you.

[bikalpapaudel]

Well for a lot of situations that I encounter, iPhone/iPod Touch is a netbook.

What we call as netbooks todays are MUCH more than netbooks. That doesnt make iPhone less potent.

[clevin]

i suspect the industry and most people now has a definition of what a netbook is, you argument would require to define that.

Which is not the point of the article.

[Demosthenes X]

Anyone that thinks the iPhone is a netbook is deluding themselves. A netbook is a device that can do the tasks of a notebook, but in a smaller and less powerful form factor. The iPhone is nothing of the sort. The article has lots of good reasons, but the biggest one is: the iPhone does not have a proper keyboard, and it does not have a big enough screen. It is not a netbook.