February 28th 2008 04:02 am
Sony exec sees Eee-like PCs as having potentially negative impact on industry
Filed under: LaptopsSo at Sony’s Open House we were having lunch with Mike Abary, Sony’s US SVP of Information Technology Products Division, who oversees Vaio computers (among numerous other things). Of course, the inevitable question came up about the Eee PC’s success thus far, and what that means to computer companies on the higher end of the spectrum, like Sony. (Asus has less to worry about here because its primary business is making PCs for other companies. ) Of course, the reality is that ultra-cheap machines probably won’t soon envelop the lion’s share of computer sales and threaten what most think of as “real” PCs, so we probably don’t have to worry about the industry bottoming out because of the Eee. False advertising and abusive trialware, however, are different stories entirely. |
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