Vizio Plans To Undercut The Market For All-In-One PCs 268
TV maker Vizio is famous for undercutting competitors' prices on LCD TVs; now, the company has released word that it will introduce a new line of budget computers, and next week will be showing them off at CES. Bloomberg reports that the company won't yet disclose actual prices (the kind with numbers), but says instead only that they will be at a "price that just doesn’t seem possible." As the article mentions, the all-in-one desktop machines shown look a lot like Apple products; BetaNews has pictures, and ominously mentions Apple's tendency to sue over similar-looking products.
it has rounded corners (Score:5, Funny)
Re:it has rounded corners (Score:5, Funny)
...will go on sale by June at a “a price that just doesn’t seem possible,” he said, declining to provide specifics.
They're stealing one from Apple's pricing scheme too!
Re:Underengineered (Score:5, Funny)
In my experience, Vizio's products are very robust. An angry ex-girlfriend threw my 37" vizio LED TV on the floor and stomped on the back. The front bezel cracked off, but it still works perfectly. Pretty amazing for something so thin (the tv, not the ex).
Re:The Curse of the Rounded Rectangle (Score:5, Funny)
uh, yeah. It is a well known FACT that TV is just an acronym for AppleTV. Also, surprised no one has mentioned this. Ever notice how the layout on most keyboards is the same as the layout on Apple Keyboards? Rip. Off. It is an ever more well known FACT that QWERTY is Martian for Apple. There are a billion ways to design a keyboard but they all come out rectangular just like Apple. Key sizes pretty much the same as Apple. Even the SAME LANGUAGE AS APPLE!!!!!! They all use the "keystroke" which is the term that high-energy physicists at the LHC have used for centuries to describe touching the brilliance that is Apple products. Most damning is this Vizio product is made from Aluminum. How many things in your house are made from Aluminum. One thing? Two? Most tech products not made by Apple are made from Lead and use molten lava for electrical wires.
It's gotten so bad even general appliance makers are ripping off Apple. Went in my kitchen and saw that my refrigerator was not only rectangular but also made from brushed stainless (like the iPod) and used the English language!!!! And the sink was made from the same exotic Apple exclusive materials as well. And obviously Kohler ripped off Apple's trademarked ease-of-use. All I do is lift the handle and it magically knows what temperature I want my water. Probably ripped of iOS for the sinksoftware as well. Where are the GPL whiners to defend Apple? Nowhere, that's where. And my sink also, not my favorite part honestly, has the same "walled-garden" type block as iOS. Try as hard as I can, but I still can't get the thing to give me soda or beer when I want it. That's really all Android based sinks have going for them. But in the end it's OK because I need Apple, er, Kohler to protect me from evil soda and beer. Don't want to cross the streams. (Copyright Apple).
Re:The Curse of the Rounded Rectangle (Score:4, Funny)
Re:The Curse of the Rounded Rectangle (Score:5, Funny)
Corners should have spikes on them... You know, just so you can run them through particularly annoying fanboys.
A price that doesn't seem possible (Score:5, Funny)
Do they actually say anywhere that they mean a low price?
Re:The Curse of the Rounded Rectangle (Score:5, Funny)
Ohh, I don't think speed is an issue. These are Apple users. Hunt and Peck is plenty of speed.
I remember the iPad launch and Steve Jobs describing the iPad keyboard as "excellent".
I'll miss Steve ... he was one of the greatest stand up comics in history.
Re:The Curse of the Rounded Rectangle (Score:3, Funny)
they're garbage
Well... at least your "argument" was succinct.