MacDailyNews Take: See, they’re “giants,” okay? You have to buy into the “giants” thing first before we go any further. Two big asian “giants.” Think Mothra and Godzilla, but smaller and even cheaper looking.
Rogers continues. “Lenovo will hold a 51% stake in the Japanese joint venture, which is intended to boost its presence in Japan’s lucrative PC market. The computer maker will also gain access to a bigger design pool for its future tablet offerings, said Rory Read, Lenovo’s COO. Lenovo is in the midst of a major tablet push, showing off its new LePad Microsoft Windows tablet at CES and also demoing its IdeaPad U1 notebook/tablet hybrid. More recently, the firm’s IdeaPad U260 notebook has been touted a viable challenger to Apple’s MacBook Air.”
MacDailyNews Take: First of all, “LePad Microsoft Windows tablet” sounds like a disease anyone would want to avoid at all costs. And, secondly, who’s touting this IdeaPad U-Whatever as a “a viable challenger to Apple’s MacBook Air?’ Oh, yeah, right, TheStreet’s resident grandma in upside-down glasses, Gary LeBuffoon Krakow. The last time we checked in with Mr. Looney Tunes, he standing on a street corner babbling that “Steve Jobs has either gotta get BlackBerry or Windows Mobile on iPhone.” That’s why we haven’t covered a thing the hit-whoring granny’s had to say in over two and a half years. Because he has no credibility. Because he’s a laughingstock.
Rogers continues, “‘There’s a lot of interest around the tablets that we announced at CES,’ said Read, who was speaking from the World Economic Forum in Davos. ‘Obviously there’s momentum in that space.'”
MacDailyNews Take: Pure bullshit.
Rogers continues, “Lenovo Chairman Liu Chuanzhi also said this week that his firm’s LePad and LePhone offerings will be used to fend off Apple’s growing presence in the Chinese market.”
MacDailyNews Take: Lenovo’s Chairman needs to lay off the ‘shrooms.*
Full article here.
*We realize it’s the only way to make LePad and LePhone seem “magical,” but, dude, abstain already.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “sleiii” for the heads up.]
Breaking news!!!
A flee and a gnat join forces to take on a polar bear.
everyone should watch that video of Krakow talking about how Steve needs to get blackberry and windows on the iphone. He sounds so conviced to… to be clueless is not a crime, to be clueless and go on tv well…
Tell you what … ship it … then we’ll let the sales do the talking.
Everything else is just posing.
LePadNec?
LePhoNec?
i always thougt “nec” is one ugly name for a company
What did these companies do before the iPad and iPhone?
Why is it necessary to attack a company for doing good? Innovate your own stuff clowns!
Remember, Lenovo is the same company that had spent months on working on a super thin laptop, so that when Steve Jobs first intro’d the MBA back in January of ’08, their designers immediately went and tried to see if their super thin laptop would fit in a manila envelope. Time Magazine had a feature article on it. They’ve been mimicking Apple for a while, and still, their sales don’t even tally up to Apple’s profits, but they’re the 4th largest PC maker in the world.
… Lenovo bought out IBM’s desktop and laptop lines. NEC has a long history in tech. Neither has been known for innovation.
… Lenovo bought out IBM’s desktop and laptop lines. NEC has a long history in tech. Neither has been known for innovation.
… Lenovo bought out IBM’s desktop and laptop lines. NEC has a long history in tech. Neither has been known for innovation.
Apple succeeded by laser like focus.
Now they want to beat it by ‘committees multiplied’ ?
I think Apple’s overseas profits and Foxconn’s rumors of wanting to open 500 Apple stores in China has scared the crap out of them.
I laugh every time I see that street interview Krakow did back in 2008. “Apple has to get BB or WM to be competitive” I guess that was right before MS started bleeding market share from every artery.
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I haven’t seen that Krackhead video, anybody have a link?
Their only strategery is to copy Apple. Poorly.
Oooooooo “new joint venture” ……. shiny
“showing off its new LePad Microsoft Windows tablet”
Two giant drunks trying to hold each other up.
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LeBleh
I loled hard at MDN’ takes.
Vintage MDN!!!
Yeah!
Why is everyone else always “teaming” and “partnering” to take on Apple? I guess it’s to share the blame.
“LePad” and “LePhone.” I didn’t realize Levono was a French company. Quel désastre…
Rory Read, Lenovo’s COO
Another round-eye in charge at an Asian company?
Kiss. of. Death.
Think Sony CEO Sir Howard Stringbeanpole.
LePad… LePhone…
This company have no shame at all. Ridiculous. where are these companies creativity? They cant innovate themselves for abut so they need to compy.