Apple products are a mutant virus... says Acer founder

Re:Apple products are a mutant virus... says Acer founder by pietrofmaggi on Thursday September 09, 2010 @11:18AM (#1675645)

Give him a break! ;-)

He was already looking at Acer as the biggest player in the netbook field and now Apple put all the netbooks in a corner.

And Acer has now to invest some money to develops Android tablets, and it seems to me that they are a bit late on this.

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Re:Apple products are a mutant virus... says Acer founder by jrockway on Thursday September 09, 2010 @02:01PM (#1676220)

Isn't Asus the big netbook player? They "invented" them, anyway.

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Re:Apple products are a mutant virus... says Acer founder by pietrofmaggi on Thursday September 09, 2010 @02:26PM (#1676309)

Yes Asus, with the eee PC, invented the netbook segment, but is Acer that has the leads:

- Acer leads netbook market while Apple loses market share http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2008/dec/10/acer-a...

- Netbook Will Reach 26.32 Million Units and Take 17.2% of the Total Notebook PC Market in 2009 http://www.displaybank.com/eng/info/sread.php?id=4412&pg...

  2009 Top5 Netbook Shipment Result/Forecast
  |  Rank | Maker   | Shipment(K units) | Share |
  |-------+---------+-------------------+-------|
  |     1 | Acer    | 11,300            | 42.9% |
  |     2 | ASUSTek | 6,450             | 24.5% |
  |     3 | HP      | 1,810             |  6.9% |
  |     4 | MSI     | 1,110             |  4.2% |
  |     5 | Dell    | 940               |  3.6% |

But things are now changing:

- Apple's iPad nabs Netbook market share: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-20007756-64.html

And forecast are gunning the netbooks segment:

- Forrester: Tablets To Outsell Netbooks By 2012 http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Forrester-Tablets-To-Outsell-b...

Are really netbooks on the extintion list? I think so.

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