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UMAX Technologies (), originally known as UMAX Computer Corporation, is a manufacturer of computer products, including scanners, mice, and flash drives, based in Taiwan. The company also uses the Yamada and Vaova brand names.〔(UMAX's website in the UK )〕 ==History== UMAX was formerly a maker of Apple Macintosh clones, using the ''SuperMac'' brand name outside of Europe. Some of their models included the SuperMac S900/S910, J700, C500 and C500e/i/LT, C600e/v/LT/x and Aegis 200. The C500 was marketed as the Apus 2000 in Europe. After Steve Jobs returned to Apple as the new CEO, he revoked all of the clone producers' licenses to produce Mac clones except for UMAX,〔(Article ) at cucug.org〕 due to their sub-US$1000 low-end offerings, a market in which Apple was not strong, and UMAX's stated desire to expand the Macintosh platform's presence in East Asian markets. UMAX could not remain profitable selling only these systems, however; it briefly made IBM PC compatible computers in the mid-1990s, but since then UMAX has mainly concentrated on manufacturing scanners.〔(The History of UCC and the SuperMac Computers: "The End" ), ''SuperMac Insider'', 2003. (archived webpage)〕 In 1995 Umax was the leading Taiwanese scanner maker, and with a market share of 13% second worldwide behind Hewlett-Packard (HP). This continued to be the case throughout 1996.〔(Taiwan's High Tech Race )〕 According to PC Data figures, in 1997 Umax briefly overtook HP in some monthly sales.〔(INDUSTRY ANALYSTS SCORE UMAX AS NEW MARKET LEADER )〕 According to the same source however, by 1999 Umax was being "eclipsed" by HP whose scanner market share doubled that year from 13% to 26%.〔(HP thrashing Umax in scanner market )〕 In some markets with high price-sensitivity like India for example, Umax continued to have a slight lead on HP throughout 1999-2000 with the two companies claiming 44% and respectively 40% of the scanner sales in this country (85% of which were for products costing less than 10,000 Rs.)〔(Growing add-ons. An incisive analysis of the booming peripherals market in the country. )〕 By 2003, HP and Canon were dominating the world's flatbed scanner market, "accounting for a combined unit market share of 81 per cent."〔(Flatbed scanner market isn’t flat at all )〕 In 2002 UMAX started to charge its US customers for scanner drivers—a practice that soon proved controversial.〔(Now you pay for Drivers – UMAX pioneers new price gouge )〕〔(UMAX US offers price cut … for free drivers )/〕 Until their exit from the desktop scanner marked in 2002, Heidelberger Druckmaschinen used Umax as its OEM for these products.〔(Heidelberg to exit desktop scanners )〕 UMAX also made a 1.3 megapixel digital camera called the AstraPix 490. It is capable of recording video clips, functioning as a webcam and can even be used to listen to music encoded in MP3 format. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「UMAX Technologies」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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