Mostly gaming focused ones. They were not very good for their price anyway.

They made Asus Zenfone and ROG phone.

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

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.

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.

And how do you propose we do that? More protests?

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.

A means to collect even more personal information for sale to data brokers.

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.

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.

If I'm thankful for one thing in the IT sphere, it's the end of the netbook era. Those machines should never have been made in the first place.

While the form factor was great in theory, the performance was lacking, and the cooling was inadequate.

come to a slow end

In what way? Their laptops are still pretty good and even though they are overpriced, their PC components seem to be doing well despite that.