It took 48 hours, but the mystery of the mass Asus router outage is solved

Post by carlmr » Sun, May 21, 2023, 12:01 PM UTC

heyoni wrote: post #20

thevagrant wrote: post #15

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Asus was very successful and at one point had captured a large portion of the motherboard market due to their extremely reliable motherboards at that time. (I recall reading many years ago as many as 1 in 4 computers were using an Asus mobo). Asus started to branch into making other equipment. Their notebooks were good quality and their premium notebooks were innovative and risked eating into markets of other manufac…

Meanwhile Samsung is totally free to make parts for Apple and directly compete in a hundred other categories…times have changed?

Post by pdimitar » Mon, May 22, 2023, 1:48 AM UTC

thevagrant wrote: post #19

pdimitar wrote: post #17

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Article is a bit big -- I'll read it but in the meantime, what did Apple do exactly? They "dialed down its MacBook manufacturing business with Asus"? What does that mean? Asus would have been their hardware supplier, or?

Asus made products for Apple and others. An example from memory is the sleek plastic Apple macbook (white and black) from 2006 was made by Asus. At the same time, Asus were making laptops under their own brand which showed a lot of potential e.g Asus W7J which had magnesium body. The idea was Asus could use knowledge they obtained making products for others to make their own products. Not only that, the Asus brand wa…