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On one hand itβs sad to see all these people laid off for Asusβs failures.
But on the other hand I saw this coming miles away. You canβt just sell mobos that kill expensive processors, and provide a warranty breaking solution. (which didnβt work btw) And then be surprised that people are upset with you for basically trapping them with losses and a broken product.
Asus did this to themselves, and itβs a shame their employees take the hit for what was clearly a failure in management.
I can't imagine a single cpu problem would cause them to lay off half their cpu and phone division
If anything it would probably cause more problems to happen in the future
maybe they have been cost cutting for a while, and we're only seeing the consequences now.
that is exactly what that whole motherboard fiasco looked like to me, not wanting to spend the money to properly engineer and test it.
Was Asus the only one with issues? I know theirs was the most egregious, and then their "solution" was a kick in the balls
That was partly AMD's fault too. Steve tested a Gigabyte (IIRC) board too, but the others were able to save themselves somewhat and needed more abuse to fail. The ASUS ones had problems on top of problems.
First in pcmr community all asus products costs 20% expensive than other brands. People call it asus tax.
Second they had rough start killing amd cpus by over volting those cpu.
Third their z690 board never came with bios flashback so people didn't considered their boards when intel 13th gen came.
Their quality never improved remained same like other manufacturer while costly way higher why would someone buy their products if not a fanboi
Me: "Maybe next year's zenphone will finally check all of my boxes and I can break free from the giant phone universe."
ASUS: "Hold my beer."
I mean there is the Sony xperia 5 v.
They cut their PC division too? What the hell are they planning to sell, then?
Cut staff, not the whole division. The headline is somewhat misleading.
Their merging their design teams in Taiwan. But laying off their production teams in China.
Welp. That sucks dogshit :(
Guess its good the zenphone 10 at least came out before this happened, but its frustrating I won't have them as an option in the future :(
Damn. Sounds like another LG situation for a phone division. That sucks.
Because it is, since the manufacturing cost is too high
Is it the same situation? I'm only worried because they merged with ROG phone division, but they should still be making phones no?
Also, are you the same guy from the Android subreddit?
My understanding is the production lines are being shut down and design teams have been merged. I would assume the same thing would happen to rog phone even though it's the ROG team that makes it.
I'm not the same guy who posted the article on the Android subreddit. But I do tend to the mega threads there and on c/android,
I meant did you use the same username here
Edit: coz I recognise the turtle. Also, I haven't visited reddit since third party apps stopped working
NICE!
I only post on reddit because I'm allowed to post the lemmy links of the same posts. I use reddit a lot less now as well.
I was actually strongly considering a zenphone 10 until this announcement. Now I'm wary that the already-short software support will be even shorter.
If they're still working on ROG Phones, then they'll still have the software engineers to put out software updates for the Zenfones.
It does suck that they seem to be killing the Zenfone line right when it got really good though.
Probably like LG. They would have a skeleton crew doing the updates that they promised already.
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Oh thank goodness my PC mobo is a gigabyte.
Crazy to think gigabyte was the bane of everyone's existence just a few years ago.
Did they get better? My view of them is still pretty shit. I got a b660m ds3h motherboard which apparently has heating issues so I can't upgrade to higher power cpu in future. And the whole psu fiasco as well. Probably never gonna buy a gigabyte again.
DID they get better or has everyone just gotten worse and they just look better in comparison? ASUS used to be my go-to and now I just feel bleh.
What happened a few years ago? I forgot. My last two PC builds were from Gigabyte, really been happy with them.
I remember that gigabyte more or less made really crappy GPUs (Vega only)/mobos during the Vega era