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November 28th, 2009

‘The man behind the Netbook craze’: E-books next on tap

By David Rothman

Jonney Shih, the billionaire chairman of Asus, gets a write-up in Fortune for pioneering the netbook, which, of course, springs from the One Laptop Per Child project.

OLPC receives nary a syllable of mention. But certainly Fortune seems on the money in giving Shih credit for major commercialization of the idea—a somewhat shrunken laptop with a low price.

Next on tap for Asus: e-books. Fortune missed that angle, alas. Given Shih’s competitive nature, it would appear that Amazon and the rest are in for a good fight. Already, according to Fortune, Asus in the fifth-largest PC-maker in the world.

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One Response to “‘The man behind the Netbook craze’: E-books next on tap”

uncola Says:
November 28th, 2009 at 9:58 pm

the asus eee pc really does deserve the credit for starting the netbook craze. olpc is too different plus no one was buying them

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