Thread: Who will go down in history as "The Innovater" in Portable Internet devices?
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2009-01-11 , 19:10
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Originally Posted by SD69 View Post
Right Asus is basically selling cheaper scaled down laptops. Unlike Nokia and Apple, the Asus products didn't really contain any innovation. IOW, if you look at the products themselves and the date they were first sold, without knowing the sales volume, Asus did nothing special
They were highly succesful because they were competitively priced, used a cheap OS (no tax), and there was a demand while there was no direct competitor. There was no such thing as a low-end laptop of that size.

Being succesful with an innovation means doing the right thing at the right time. As you asserted elsewhere, multi-touch is very old technology, and even past years several projects used it. One certain corporation has been using it with a huge commercial success but that doesn't make them the inventors. Inventors, sadly, hardly ever receive the credit they deserve. People don't want change because its too much work; they rather stay the same. Ie. the story of Tesla.

Asus did the right thing at the right moment. This creates market leaders. Bill Gates did the same. SGI too, until NVidia, Windows NT, and Linux came around. Linux too. If BSD was not being rolled in a legal scandal, Linux as it exists now probably wouldn't even exist. Heck, even Nokia did this.

Speaking of which, Abit declared bankrupty end decembre 2008. Not many years ago they were a competitor of Asus, delivering competitive products.
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