{"id":37807,"date":"2009-11-06T19:48:42","date_gmt":"2009-11-07T00:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/?p=122859"},"modified":"2009-11-06T19:48:42","modified_gmt":"2009-11-07T00:48:42","slug":"bad-news-good-news-eee-keyboard-delayed-but-it%e2%80%99s-getting-the-old-touchscreen-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/37807","title":{"rendered":"Bad news, good news: Eee Keyboard delayed, but it\u2019s getting the old touchscreen back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/noe4u.jpg\" alt=\"noe4u\" title=\"noe4u\" width=\"620\" height=\"326\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-122881\" \/><br \/>\nI amaze myself sometimes. You see, I have so much power as a writer on this invincible and influential blog that sometimes I can change an entire industry with but a word. Case in point: apparently my recent post on Eee&#8217;s decision to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2009\/10\/20\/eee-keyboard-gets-touchscreen-updated-to-resistive\/\">change the touchscreen to resistive <\/a> on their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/tag\/eee-keyboard\/\">Eee Keyboard<\/a> was so crushing that they&#8217;ve altered their entire business plan and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maximumpc.com\/article\/news\/eee_keyboard_hits_snag_launch_delayed\">delayed the device<\/a> to accommodate it. O Mighty Blogger! Thou humblest the world!<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nActually<\/em>, I&#8217;m guessing they did some focus groups and found that the trade-off of &#8220;lower price and crappier touchscreen&#8221; with &#8220;people actually wanting the device&#8221; was unacceptable. At any rate, the device (which had an original internal release window of August-ish) may not make it in time for the holidays. It&#8217;s not rare that we <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2009\/01\/09\/exclusive-hands-on-with-asus-prototype-eee-keyboard\/\">see a device at CES<\/a> that doesn&#8217;t make it during the next year, but I really had hopes for this thing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/DaCKljx4gWahTRmvK7LVXxR3PmM\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/DaCKljx4gWahTRmvK7LVXxR3PmM\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/DaCKljx4gWahTRmvK7LVXxR3PmM\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/DaCKljx4gWahTRmvK7LVXxR3PmM\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=e3EIer-vYXc:tm11qvassjA:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=e3EIer-vYXc:tm11qvassjA:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=e3EIer-vYXc:tm11qvassjA:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=e3EIer-vYXc:tm11qvassjA:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=e3EIer-vYXc:tm11qvassjA:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I amaze myself sometimes. You see, I have so much power as a writer on this invincible and influential blog that sometimes I can change an entire industry with but a word. Case in point: apparently my recent post on Eee&#8217;s decision to change the touchscreen to resistive on their Eee Keyboard was so crushing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}