Asus Eee PC Gives Nightmares To Sony
If you didn’t buy an Asus Eee PC, you probably know someone that owns one, and if that’s not true either, I am sure you heard of the thing, at least that! When I saw it for the first time, I was quite surprised, and didn’t expect to see it sell so well. I usually don’t believe what the local press says, not “official” reports from local retailers either, but I have friends working in the field, and I know for sure that the Asus Eee PC had really strong sales. I see no problem with that, but Sony seems to have nightmares about the Eee PC leeping it up…
According to Mike Abary, “If Asus [Eee PC] starts to do well, we are all in trouble. That’s just a race to the bottom.”. Mr. Abary is Sony’s information technology products division senior vice president, so he must know what he says.
In fact, there’s no surprise with the Asus Eee PC, since the device delivers its users only what they need, leaving the extra features nobody is using aside. While Sony goes for high priced laptops and desktop computers, Asus just reminded everyone about what they really need.
“Traditional PCs are too powerful, no matter in the home or office; we are seeing quad-core rising with octo-core coming in the near future, and the more cores in a CPU, the more memory the system needs. Is all this really necessary? With the Eee PC we decided to go back to basics, to bring the focus to just functions and reasonable price levels.”, said Jonney Shih, Asustek’s CEO, and that’s completely true. Unfortunately, this truth hurts Sony, and may hurt some other big boys in the future…
Source: warepin
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