http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080310/...LvFBq951as0NUE
Not enough interest from customers? Or is it that the PC's they chose were garbage?
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080310/...LvFBq951as0NUE
Not enough interest from customers? Or is it that the PC's they chose were garbage?
Before Executing commands, understand WHAT you are doing and WHY YOU WOULD WANT TO DO THAT. Some Commands can be VERY dangerous if you are uninformed!
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I am thinking people that didn't know about Linux bought them and couldn't figure them out.
Linux is still not ready for the average user. Even Mark Shuttleworth has said this. They seemed to sell very well because of the price, but if the user doesn't understand what Linux can and can't do then they are going to be disappointed and return them.
One day a distro will figure out how to make Linux more like OS X and it will have a chance.
On the other hand it says Linux sales online will continue. And the EEEPC seems to be doing well since it includes alot of proprietary stuffs and an easy to use interface.
But even that is getting xp as an option now so people will probably gravitate towards the XP version
Last edited by jrusso2; March 11th, 2008 at 03:38 AM.
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well they are still selling the gPC online, and the new cloudbook...
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h...zQxvgD8VAQTSG0
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John
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A bit of both if you ask me. Linux is NOT ready for the masses as far as I am concerned. Personally, I steer folks tired of XP/Vista towards Mac's instead of Linux.Originally Posted by jflaker
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As far as my masses are concerned, they can watch youtubes, write papers, and chat on im's fine, so I steer them towards linux.
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I live in rural Pennsylvania and only have a few places to shop. Walmart, being one of them.......I have been in their store and have not seen the system at all. If they do have it, it is neither prominently displayed nor is there a demonstration unit set up.
MARKETING? None that I know of unless you read the techie news and blogs that said they were going to start selling them, then that they were selling them, now they are discontinuing them..............They weren't in my store's location that I know of.........and I hang out in that section of the store while the wife shops.
Some things sell themselves, like food and necessities......with computer systems, there needs to be more effort in show and tell, aka, Marketing. A prominent working demo unit would probably have made for more sales
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I happened to be in Wal-Mart one day (a rare event) so I decided to check that part of the store out (come to think of it, that was the only part of the store...) and I didn't see any trace of them either.
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Yea but it does work. I watch youtube. Listen to music. And so on with 0 problems.
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Walmart really should of marketed this...
I hope they adopt the Shuttle kpc though, it definitely looks more promising than the gPC...
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Exactly what I was thinking. It works for me as well. The reason why Walmart withdrew is probably because they were dumb and had no idea what the hell they were doing. People MUST have been buying these computers - but the people buying probably didn't know what Linux was. I think it's safe to dump the failure onto Walmart for not clearly stating that Linux is a totally different OS.
Then again, I know nothing about this story and thus am unable to give an accurate opinion.
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