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[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago

Nah. The hardware wasn't very good and it was very slow. I had a 7" and a 9" one. I replaced them with the surface pro.

The company was going to make custom Linux based OSes for other smart devices like TVs and monitors but Android came out and was backed by Google, so of course it became wildly popular. Our company went bankrupt pretty quickly after that because it had no the contracts coming in. Asus was the only client keeping them afloat and the contract was ending.