It’s nice to know that if you don’t like what top executives at Asus have to say about smartbooks, netbooks, or tablets, you need only wait a week or two, and the strategic sands will have shifted. We thought Asus (Asustek) chairman Jonney Shih was pretty clear in his wait-and-see-on-tablets statement in late January. But CEO Jerry Shen (pictured) put a stronger emphasis on tablets in a Feb. 5 analyst call. Confused? So are we.
If we treat the Shen doctrine as the latest word, Asus will have an e-reader called …