Park the hearse, cancel the appointment with the funeral director, and don’t print the obituary, because netbooks are here to stay. Or at least that’s the case if Asus has any say in the matter (and the company does).
Asus will continue to blitz the netbook market in 2011 by launching three to four brand new Eee PC models, which are in addition to upgraded versions of existing models already on the market, DigiTimes reports. By the end of the year, Asus plans to have shipped six million netbooks, claiming a 20 percent share of the market.
Eee PC business GM Samson Hu indicated that it’s tough to predict what impact tablet PCs will have on netbooks sales, but that won’t deter Asus from shipping as many netbooks as it can. Given the slow roll out of tablets in general, that’s probably a safe bet.
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