A Philosophy of Netbooks

Back in the olden days I used to read Joey Devilla's blog all the time. He was - and is - known as Accordion Guy and he produced consistently cool content. Well, I just stumbled on him again and found that he's doing great, philosophical posts on tech. Take his examination of netbooks vs. smartphones, for example. He compares netbooks and smartphones to two brands of fast food pie. Netbooks are sub-par pies made to look like a real slice of pie - you know you're not getting good pie but the appearance of a pie shape and crust creates cognitive dissonance and makes you think you're getting screwed (which, in most cases, you are - netbooks are sub-par notebooks and horrible "communication devices"). Smartphones are like McDonald's pies in that they don't look like pie - they look like a pared down and highly subjective vision of pie. You have everything in there - the filling, the crust, whatever else - but you know you're not buying real pie and you can sit back and "enjoy" it on that level. Netbooks are faking it while smartphones have no pretensions of pie-like goodness. With me so far?