It wasn't self-sabotaging. The first netbooks ran Linux and ran okay, at a time when Microsoft was about to EOL Windows XP and Vista absolutely wouldn't run on such devices. If they'd caught on, it could have spelled the end of Microsoft desktop hegemony. It prompted a panicked reaction of extending the service life of XP, while introducing restrictive licensing to pitiful 1024x600 displays (which fit the current crop, but restricted their growth). It was a classic "embrace/extinguish" response to an existential threat.
Re:What to Expect from Marzipan
by IOT_Apprentice on Friday May 10, 2019 @03:25PM
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Apple with the iPad and revisions of the MacBook Air murdered the netbook.And Google Android as a platform smothered Windows Phone completely.
Re:What to Expect from Marzipan
by scarface74 on Friday May 10, 2019 @08:06AM
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ARM netbooks running what in 2010?
Combine that with the launch of the ipad and the future of ARM based laptops was delayed over a decade. Netbook makers were poised to release Arm netbooks only to get scared when the ipad was announced.