We’re not surprised by this outcomes, as probably we can live with the iPad hype and the result will sure to hurt the netbook market. Asustek the world known netbook brand is cutting down their netbook shipments for their strongest quarter and their main reason is “Apple’s iPad is eating their market.”
This doesn’t means that they’ll be out of the mini-computing game, but instead the company shows their best interest on stepping into tablet PC segment. Asustek has reduced its unit target to 1.4 million for the third quarter
, which is traditionally its peak sales period, said CEO Jerry Shen.
