Been anticipating evidence that the iPad will dent the netbook market? In case you believe ASUS, that’s already happened, with the Eee PC vendor reporting fewer sales inside the second quarter relative to the first and downgrading expectations for the standard peak season of Q3. Apple’s prodigious tablet is specifically named by ASUS CEO Jerry Shen as an invader it truly is ” crowding out” netbook demand, though he remains firmly committed to the small and affordable laptop market. The entire same, Shen does also point a finger to the horizon, where a trifecta of Eee Pads marches ever nearer with the intent to do battle with the iPad. So while netbooks aren’t going away in a hurry, these latest numbers seem to indicate they’re set to at the least share the lower-end spotlight with touch-friendly slates, or rather Pads.
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