A recent story from Digitimes.com about an ABI Research study suggests a strong future for the netbook market. They are predicting 60 million netbooks will be sold in 2010. Beyond 2010, they are expecting the 60 million to double by 2013. The fact is the netbook market is expanding into other areas of the world. The article suggest a strong educational market for netbooks.

Hard to argue with this research. There are always real threats to the future of netbooks, but I feel the organic nature of their rise, will lead to their growing market strength. People do want secondary computers and they don’t want to spend a lot of money on them. There will always be a more expensive option out there and that’s the role of the manufacturers. They are always trying the upsell. They are always trying to maximize profit. The netbook is all about what we want, not what they want.