Asus has reiterated that it will “no longer” be making “new” Android smartphones with its focus shifting towards the market built up by AI.
During its “2025 Year-End Gala” earlier this month, Inside reports that Asus chairman Jonney Shih directly confirmed that the company will exit the Android smartphone market.
When asked about the move, he said (translated) that “Asus will no longer add new mobile phone models in the future,” further adding that the company will “continue to take care of the brand’s mobile phone users.” This could be taken in one of two ways, with Asus either exiting the smartphone market altogether or just ending the development of new smartphone models beyond existing lineups, but in context, it’s clearly the former.
Further comments from the chairman revealed that Asus is shifting its resources away from smartphones in order to align with the “paradigm shift” that is… AI. Of course.
The company is apparently using the resources previously spent on mobile phones to bolster “commercial PCs and physical AI devices,” including “AI Robot & Robotics” and “AI Glasses.”
Uhg. Just die, AI. It’s so anti-consumer at this point.
Asus driving slow and still missing the warning signs.
Tech companies are now superfluous and a dime a dozen. This AI bubble should wipe out enough of them and leave us with a manageable level of dystopic tech goons. Then we can work on tightening up the foundation with planning that is beneficial to society, not filling up pockets of a few to finally end up in an enshittification vacuum.
It’s funny how everyone is trying to shift towards AI when the most hyped smartphone atm is one with a physical keyboard by the blackberry designers
Is it? Because I work in mobile app development so I’m surrounded by phone nerds and I haven’t seen any hype about it at all.
Any other phones that are really hyped? They’re all the same
No. Like you said it’s all the same. Not much interesting going on at the moment.
When the new super thin iPhone launched there was a little bit of interest, as in: people had to check it out and see how thin it was, and then everyone was like ‘yeah, it’s super thin but so what?’.
The iPhone Air is actually surprisingly nice. The drawback of horrible speakers is a deal breaker though.
I had no idea Asus made Android phones.
Mostly gaming focused ones. They were not very good for their price anyway.
They seem good on paper - every time I look for a phone on gsmarena’s phone finder I get a few of their rog phones in the results. But then I look at the price tag and the gamer aesthetic, and I ignore them.
Asus has always just chased after the short term goals. This reminds me when they suddenly made android tablets, and mini pcs, and every stupid tech fad. They’re always after the latest fad, they release a subpar product, and then it fizzles.
they release a subpar product, and then it fizzles.
I’m disappointed they’re jumping on AI bullshit. But I have to wholeheartedly disagree with you about the “sub par product”.
- My Asus desktop has been chugging along for a decade.
- My Asus Chromebook Flip has been going with no issues for at least four or five (though it’s long since been flipped to Linux)
- The Asus laptop I had before THAT is older than the desktop and quite happily living it’s retirement as a home-theatre PC connected to my television.
I have quite literally never had Asus hardware break down on me.
On the other hand they seem to be the only one alongside lenovo that tries to do something different with laptops. Like dual monitor laptops. They’ve been at that for years and keep improving.
But maybe I’m misunderstanding what a fad is, and I’m just easily fooled by gimmicks lol
Asus also had a smartphone that you could dock to a tablet screen and transform your phone into a tablet. That was like 10+ years ago.
It’s such a humbling moment, to see the company that revolutionized PCs with their EEE netbooks come to a slow end, becoming the lemming follower (and seeing that from Lemmy, no less).
What in the Devil’s name are “A.I. glasses”?
A means to collect even more personal information for sale to data brokers.
Smart glasses with a rebrand.
I’d be wary of smart glasses though, they’re the holy grail of data harvesting. Companies will be able to see exactly what holds people’s attention, what they look at most, what tempts them most, as well as see any personal information you look at, what physical goods you own and interact with, etc.
There’s a reason Google chased it so hard, and why companies like Meta are trying to do it now.
And people basically just used it to film themselves fucking and awkwardly record social situations without consent. Hence the users got the name glassholes.
While the snark is very much deserved, it’s most likely augmented reality glasses. Either providing virtual screens like say XReal or Viture, thus smaller and less cumbersome than Apple Vision. Or something a lot more wearable like the Meta Rayban sunglasses with POV camera and speakers.
They can cram any kind of AI fluff in there.
