Netbooks are loss leaders and at this point commodity items. Why would a company like Nokia go from the comparatively profitable smartphone market to the commodity market of netbooks? There is also the problem of negative brand image. I have an MSI wind & have also played with the Dell & HP netbooks. The experience with them is horrible. It's an unusable keyboard & some software won't even work as it assumes a larger screen resolution. Their only benefit is they are cheap. I would be hard pressed to want to buy something else from any of those brands given my negative experience. Nokia would be in the same boat, yet they would be in a worse position having gone from a position of profit to one of razor thin margins if any & also get the negative impression. That's a losing proposition.