Sharp To Quit Making Personal Computers

cylonlover writes "Sharp has reportedly decided to pull the plug on their PC operations — not entirely shocking given that the company has not released any PCs at all in the past year. The company will apparently 'focus on marketing its Galapagos tablet devices coming out in December, along with providing content such as e-books, music and video for these products.'"

Huh?

[Anonymous Coward]

Sharp made PCs?

Re:Huh?

[antifoidulus]

Yes, and I burst out LAUGHING when he couldn't even get basic history right. It was one of the most hilarious things I have ever seen. I mean people are stupid enough to actually believe this guy? Thats infinitely funnier than any sitcom about really dumb characters.

Re:Huh?

[Anonymous Coward]

I mean people are stupid enough to actually believe this guy? Thats infinitely funnier than any sitcom about really dumb characters.

No, it isn't. It's sad. Just fucking sad.

Re:Huh?

[TheLink]

Not so funny come voting time.

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Re:Huh?

[cgenman]

In defense of consumers: there is no real way of judging build quality in modern computers. "Brand name" strength is a terrible indicator, as brands like HP and Sony have some of the most miserable long-term reliability numbers. Industry numbers like Mean Time Between Failures bears little or no resemblance to reality.

Also, computer innovation generally means adding crap that isn't supported properly in the OS anyway, and will go away the moment you need to reinstall. The Lenovo I'm typing this on has a touchstrip launcher that takes twice as long to launch as extra buttons would, a camera-driven login system that only logs you in ideal circumstances, and a couple of unique hardware buttons that are mapped uselessly. The most genuinely innovative feature is a hybrid SSD / Disk HDD, which speeds up access and boot times significantly but at the cost of a proprietary HDD driver in all relevant OSs.

But really, the biggest problem with modern "innovations" in computing hardware is that they are always specific enough to be useless. Computers with built-in camera docs so you can print directly and easily. Wait, that's Windows 7-32 computer with a Canon camera doc to print to a Canon printer easily if you haven't put anything on top of your tower. Here's an innovative computer with built-in biometric detector. Wait, that's tied to a proprietary XP modification, only works on a vanilla login screen, and doesn't really work anyway.