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Asus Says Netbook Is Dead, Hello Wearable Computers

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the all-new-ways-to-strain dept.

pinkgadget27 pointed us at a story where the ASUS chairman waxes poetic on the end of the Netbook class that it pioneered, ChromeOS replacing Android, and the future you probably didn't know about: Wristwatch Computers.

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  1. Dead already? by hansraj · · Score: 3, Informative

    Really? I thought the point of the article was that its death was inevitable, and that wearable computers are the future. How does that translate to "Netbooks are dead already"?

    But hey, if you filter out editorial stupidity from slashdot we will have only one or two "news" every week or so.

  2. Re:DUPE! by sznupi · · Score: 4, Informative

    More than dupe, Asus Waveface Ultra looks more or less like a direct rip-off of one concept from two years ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_Morph

    Though the idea, when approached that way, as an advanced "cellphone" which can also wrap around your wrist, isn't completely stupid...

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    One that hath name thou can not otter
  3. Re:Point of order.... by FlyingBishop · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually, the suit in question was very wise, much more so than the Slashdot headline makes him out to be.

    If I had to paraphrase what he said in the article, it would be more along the lines of

    Yeah, we've got all sorts of crazy shit in our development labs, but I don't think it's going to go anywhere - well, at least not this year. And even if it does, we're raking in the dough on these netbook things (which we invented by the way) and I don't think that's going to change anytime soon. However, some of this shit is pretty cool, and it will eventually become commonplace.