{"id":656362,"date":"2013-05-06T22:30:56","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T02:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=490239"},"modified":"2013-05-06T22:30:56","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T02:30:56","slug":"asus-plans-to-beat-pc-malaise-with-mix-of-chromebooks-android-tablets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/656362","title":{"rendered":"Asus plans to beat PC malaise with mix of Chromebooks, Android tablets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/06\/asus-chromebooks-android-tablets\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/01\/asus-eee-pad-transformer.jpeg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Asus Chromebooks, Android Tablets\" title=\"Asus Chromebooks, Android Tablets\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>With <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/10\/windows-8-pc-shipments-analysis-429262\/\">the PC industry in decidedly bad shape lately<\/a>, PC vendors have been looking for alternative ways to generate revenues in a computer market that&#8217;s increasingly tilted toward mobile devices. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/2037572\/asus-to-launch-chromebook-in-second-half-of-2013.html\"><em>IDG News, <\/em>via<em> PCWorld,<\/em> reports<\/a> that <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/asus\">Asus<\/a> plans to release its first <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/chromebook\">Chromebook<\/a> in the second half of 2013 while hoping to continue the success it&#8217;s had so far in shipping Android tablets. Asus has no illusions that Chromebooks will be mass consumer products, but Asus CEO Jerry Shen tells <em>IDG News<\/em> that the &#8220;Chromebook is good, not on the consumer side, but it&#8217;s good in the education and government side, and some for the commercial side.&#8221; <em>IDG<\/em> notes that Asus shipped 3 million Android tablets in the first quarter of 2013, so it&#8217;s clear that <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/11\/28\/asus-ceo-windows-8-demand-poor\/\">the company is more than willing to look beyond Microsoft for operating systems for its devices<\/a>.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/g3cQwnENXi4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the PC industry in decidedly bad shape lately, PC vendors have been looking for alternative ways to generate revenues in a computer market that&#8217;s increasingly tilted toward mobile devices. IDG News, via PCWorld, reports that Asus plans to release its first Chromebook in the second half of 2013 while hoping to continue the success [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656362","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\/7438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}