Nexus 7 and Android Convertibles Drive Massive Asus Profit

rtfa-troll writes "The collapse of the PC market has had much discussion on Slashdot with a common opinion that, now that Apple is the largest personal computer manufacturer, a loss of sales combined with Apple's iPad will completely eliminate most of them. Now Asustek's most recent results show that there may be a way out for those that can move away from their standard markets. Concentrating on Android tablet devices, the Google Nexus 7, with a help from ASUS transformer tablets has driven the company to massive $230 million profits. Asus gross revenue also climbed 9 percent to around $3.8 billion. We have discussed related issues recently: Where companies like HTC have lost their focus on open Android devices and suffered from devastating collapses, ASUS has managed to differentiate it's tablets by providing the most open tablet experience possible via with Google's Nexus program and branding."

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[Andy Prough]

Desktop Android would steal 30% of the market for new laptop installations from MS within just a few years. If Asus wants to make monster profits, it would push for Desktop Android to get to market on its devices sooner rather than later.

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I still want a quality, cheap, powerful PC

[jsepeta]

i don't care so much about the brand name. i just want a kickass pc that doesn't cost 2 weeks salary. it has to be reliable, fast, and made from metal not crappy ass rounded plastic.

Re:Openness? I do not think so

[AlphaWolf_HK]

A lot of that has to do with legal liabilities that need to be sorted out. For example, what are the consequences of providing secure content delivery? In some countries, encryption is illegal, so they may have to make massive re-designs, and do other R&D, which may cost a lot. Along with that, they'll have to figure out if they'll even get a return on investment. Also they may face a public relations backlash for conforming to what the west considers to be oppressive laws.

I imagine that in many cases, they'll simply eat a loss, which is why they'll never market it there. I don't know about India in particular, but I imagine that if there was money to be made there, they would do so.

Re:Innovation

[CastrTroy]

Or your know, just buy two devices. These things are getting pretty cheap now. Get a Nexus 7 tablet for $200, use it for all your media consumption and facebooking. Get a $400 laptop, or a $600 desktop with gobs of memory and ample processing power, and use it for tinkering and programming whatever else. It's nice that we can tinker with computers without spending a fortune. I like tinkering as much as the next guy, but I also have a computer that I don't tinker with because I like to have it working and free of clutter when I actually want to get stuff done. At $400-$500, tablets are way too expensive for me. But at $200, it's more like buying an MP3 player, or a dvd/blueray player. Nobody cares that they can't hack their dvd player. They just want it to work and play movies

Re:Largest personal computer manufacture?

[LodCrappo]

Sorry, an article from appleinsider.com full of quotes from Tim Cook (and only Tim Cook, not a single outside analyst) doesn't hold much merit. It's marketing, not fact or news.

As for your other "source", it doesn't support your claims at all.

> Coulling believes that tablets will continue to pressure PC and notebook sales "in the short term,"

How exactly does an analyst predicting short term pressure on the PC market translate into the iPad eliminating the PC market? Where do you people come up with this crap?

Also interesting that both of your sources are from 10 months ago. Maybe that's because more recent numbers show a decline in iPad sales?

http://www.unwiredview.com/2012/10/26/apple-reports-q3-2012-results-iphone-sales-up-ipad-sales-down/ [unwiredview.com]