Nilay Patel of The Verge writes: "Vizio is one of the best-kept secrets in consumer technology. The tiny Southern California company consistently sells the most HDTVs in America, but it's a sure bet that you know virtually nothing about it. Hell, most people don't even know Vizio is an American company, even though all but three of its 417 employees work in the US. That's sort of what happens when you run virtually no advertising outside of sponsoring a few major events like the Rose Bowl, hold no press conferences outside of CES, and build the foundation of your empire by selling low-cost TVs at Walmart. Yet Vizio's customers keep coming back, and bringing others: a combination of low prices, increasing quality, and solid customer support is pretty hard to resist.
But after conquering the TV market, launching a line of well-regarded soundbars, and dipping a curious toe into the Android tablet waters, Vizio's decided to come out of the shadows and go after something bigger."
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One of my biggest beefs with the PC industry is mostly everything is made purely for pricepoint. While that's important, many times other things are sacrificed because of it like battery life, build quality and the like. There are few companies I think differentiate themselves in the PC industry (namely Asus and Lenovo), but it's good to see they want to make a quality product, and it might even be an inexpensive one. And no bloatware.
Of course they actually have to follow through with it which seems to be a big challenge.
Never, ever, buy an Asus product. They have nice intentions and good prices, but they make shitty products.
From my experience and anyone I've known, Asus is usually looked up to much more highly upon than say a company like Dell, HP, etc.
Not to say your issues aren't something to be mad about, but that seems to be the exception from everything I've seen of them. Although I can't say I'm big on the Transformer Prime, but most of their other products seem pretty solid.
I see a bright future, great article.