Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on May 20, 2006 03:47 AM
VIA is in the chipset market, not in the software market. They also aren't making any ripples with their discrete cards.
What they do do is cheap hardware, cheap hardware which should be ubiquitous. Price and support are more important than features. People want their hardware to just work here.
The only way to gain more marketshare is through support, or in this case; lack of customer dissatisfaction. And it's easy to make a customer angry when you're talking graphics.
Price is low already. Support is non-existant. And hardware is meek. Which of those is easiest to fix to gain a higher marketshare?
Common VIA hardware contains very little in the way of IP that would be endangered by offering free documentation and some proactive community support (unless they call throwing money at sites like epiacenter "community support").
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on May 20, 2006 03:47 AMWhat they do do is cheap hardware, cheap hardware which should be ubiquitous. Price and support are more important than features. People want their hardware to just work here.
The only way to gain more marketshare is through support, or in this case; lack of customer dissatisfaction. And it's easy to make a customer angry when you're talking graphics.
Price is low already. Support is non-existant. And hardware is meek. Which of those is easiest to fix to gain a higher marketshare?
Common VIA hardware contains very little in the way of IP that would be endangered by offering free documentation and some proactive community support (unless they call throwing money at sites like epiacenter "community support").
Luc Verhaegen.
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