Asus Head Gives Thumbs Down to Tablets, Thumbs Up To Smartbooks, Wearable Computers & Android/Chrome OS
Interesting commentary from Asus Chairman Johnny Shih in Silicon.com…
Asus: What will be the next netbook?
Couple of interesting bullet points in the article:
– 20% of laptop sales in Europe/Middle East/Africa (EMEA) in 2009 were netbooks
– Expected 2010 worldwide netbook sales projected to be 25 million units
– Shih is not enthusiastic about tablet computers (I wonder if this will change if Apple announces one next week?)
– He predicts Android will eventually be the OS of choice for netbooks and smartbooks because of its low cost (watch out Microsoft!)
– He believes that Chrome OS will become more widely used than Android because of its support for larger screens and multiple windows (Hmm.
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