MacDailyNews Take: iCal’ed with gusto.
Minihane reports, “Speaking to Digitimes, Lanci was in bullish mood. ‘Sales of iPad pushed forward very fast initially, but have slowed down in the past few weeks,’ he said. However, there’s no proof that the latter is the case, with Apple having sold around 7.5 million since its launch in April.”
MacDailyNews Take: Proof, who needs proof when you’re the head of a plastic junk assembler?
Minihane reports, “Warming to his theme, Lanci said, ‘We hope our tablet PCs can reach a global market share of 10-20% initially, and become the market leader in two to three years.’ That’s mighty ambitious seeing as Acer’s tablets aren’t even due to go on sale until April next year, by which point the iPad 2 will probably be on shelves.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Classic. We can’t wait to revisit this one!
Awwww, give the guy a break! It’s his job to convince people to buy his junk. If he says he’s selling cra no one will buy it. Well, they won’t anyway but we already know that..
Seeing that you can’t even turn on the demo model…hell might freeze over first…oh but then didn’t hell freeze over when Apple moved from PowerPC to Intel chips? Ok how about when UFOs land on the White House lawn then.
You know, you almost have to feel sorry for these guys who head companies who want to compete with the iPad… almost. I mean, what are they going to say, that they’ll never catch up or that their R&D teams and products they produce just can’t compete with Apple’s? They have to sound positive and confident no matter what the reality may be so that their investors and board members don’t lose confidence in them and can their asses. For some, it’s also a matter of pride. Pointless pride, but still pride.
Really, I do hope that another company does come up with something competitive – if only to keep Apple on their toes.
I laughed uncontrollably when this popped up on my iPad.
Acer is one of the lazy companies that relies completely on a third party (Google or Microsoft) for something as critical to its product as the operating system. Even if they could engineer the hardware, they will only be as good as whatever Google and Microsoft can provide, and they will be competing NOT with Apple, but with every other lazy company who is dependent on Google and/or Microsoft.
Somebody hold my hand. I’m getting scared….. Not!
Good grief – it’s the Ghost of Ed Colligan
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Surely delusions like those expressed by Lanci are now treatable with drugs?
=:~)
@ Ballmer’s left nut
“Ok how about when UFOs land on the White House lawn then.” I remember that Obama first showed up on the scene right around that time… Coincidence?
If more people take up skeet-shooting as a hobby, then there will be a market for the Acer tablets.
Apple competes with itself. Therefore, it leads.
Example, the iPod mini. Why discontinue it? It was a great seller.
When Apple introduced the iPod nano, all of Apple’s “competitors” were still trying to come up with an “iPod mini killer”.
Oooops, too late!
It would be interesting to see some other ‘good’ ideas, if only for some variance. But, not because Apple needs external motivations.
Wall Street loves hubris (which is lead them to drive the world into the economic ravine we’re going through now), and this guys is smart enough to know it. Wall Street will reward his words on Monday. This guy also knows how people have enormously short attention span (present company notwithstanding), so whatever grand statements that he made today that end up sounding hopelessly ridiculous six, nine or twelve months from now will by then be irrelevant, as nobody will ever remember that he said them (again, present company notwithstanding). More than likely, even if someone like MDN ever gets to call him on these, he will effortlessly dance around them and twist them a bit into something more palatable to the state of failure his product will be in by then. He can always do what the previous American did — follow the golden rule: “When you’re losing, pretend you’re winning!” (“Mission Accomplished!”).
There still aren’t any competing tablet operating systems. Google is promising that their Chrome OS will some day be ready for tablets, and possibly also Android 3.x (gingerbread? honeycomb?), while nobody is taking seriously Microsoft’s claim regarding Windows 7 for tablets. So, Acer looks like they’ll stick with Google, which means that they won’t even have a viable OS to work with until Apple ships iPad 2.
This will be fun to watch. I should better pull up a chair and make some popcorn…
acer = pure crap!
Duh. Overtaking MAC’s I-Pad couldn’t be easier and I would say Acer should be able to do it with one stylus tied behind its back. Should only take about 6 months. How many pretentious MAC lemmings can there be to buy a proprietary, button challenged toy?
I-Pad is a minor fad and its cool factor decreases by the day with all the awesome and innovative Android and Windows 7 tablets being released. Buh-bye MAC.
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“This will be fun to watch. I should better pull up a chair and make some popcorn…”
No butter on mine, ol’ buddy.
@ Zune Tang®,
I bought my wife an iPad today, but if there had been a ZunePad available, I’d have been all over that puppy!
Who hired this guy?
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IPad sales slowing down? Really?? Ever occurred to this nitwit that IF (big if) IF pol were not buying iPad it was perhaps coz of black Friday or waiting till holiday season to give as gift
I mean how and why such morons paid such a high salary for being inDUHviduals?
Lastly claiming #1place in few years is like me (yes me) claiming I’ll become next CEO of Apple, oh and if I don’t, hey no one would remember I hope :p
I have to wonder if Zune Tang actually believes what he writes. If he does.. Then I have to wonder how or why.
I think I saw Zune Tang viciously elbowing a teenybopper girl out of the way in that Ballmer grand opening video. And he was doing to Ballmer what could only be described as boot-licking. It was an uncomfortable moment. I hope he enjoyed the Miley Cyrus tickets.
TO MDN:
I know you revel in these quotes. But it’s something they have to say to appease their retailers and their OS deal… They know that just saying iPads will get press as well.
The only selling point for me, regardless of make, is the market place. If there are no apps or fragmentation, I will be looking elsewhere. So far Apple has the only solid solution.
Truth be told I`ll keep my eye on this. It would be pretty cool to put OSX and Debian on a tablet (just for laughs as a hobby) but the price has to be right.
To Acer CEO: When all is said and done, more is said than done.
BoM noted “Remember, “pads” are crippled netbooks and the only way to get a decent netbook is to install Linux on it.” Forget Installing anything.
Buy a MacBook Air and get it all, plus having resale value 2 years down the road.
INITIAL Price minus sale price after 2 years puts Apple out front of dang near everyone. Try to get a decent price out of a netbook lately?
@Robert…so, Obama showed up right around the time as something that has yet to happen?
Maybe by the time it actually happens you won’t be such an idiot.
Meant @Roberto.
Whatever he’s smokin’ sounds like good stuff. He’s already to the point of delusional.
Me myself prefer table instead of tablet.
Specifically table dance!
Woooowwwww
Even in the announcement, they reveal why the will ultimately fail: they’re releasing both Android and Windows pads. This inability to choose an focus creates a fragmented market within the same vendor (Acer). If they lack the confidence to throw their full weight behind a single product, then they never will come close to winning.
I bought an iPad for my surgeon today, as a gift, as he saved my mom’s life, by removing her brain tumor successfully. He’s an iPhone user, so I’m sure he’ll like the iPad.
I think this article is all wrong.
I was at an airport yesterday and I distinctly heard Gianfranco Lanci say,”Don’t touch my junk”.
That’s Mighty Ambitious considering Apple doesn’t care about market share, per se, they care about PROFIT SHARE.
I’m sure Acer can pump out some $49 tablets just to get the unit market share crown.. Good job guys.
@Al…..good one!
I must have one. Now!!
Oh. I see. It’s not available.
I’ll just have to use this really terrible old iPad then.
Sounds like Ron Whatsisname from Real/Napster. You remember him? The guy with the donut in his mouth? I can’t remember the name of their MP3 player, but it was going to bury the iPod. BTW, how are they doing these days? Anybody know?………or care?
I checked behind him. Saw two shovels, biggest I’ve ever seen from these guys. He definitely needs the big ones with all this B.S. he’s pulling out of his ass. lol
the competition is good. I hope that one of these companies give apple a run for their money as they will need to loosen the grip they have on customers to compete. No company should require a persons credit card deets in order to put files on their device…. 1984 styleee.
It may also give you goons up a reality check
They have a name for the line of tablets. They will be called ‘Dodo’
Actually, they make nice hackintoshes.
Guess you gotta have dreams…no matter how deluded they might be. or perhaps for the Acer it is more a question of ambition far exceeding ability.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
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That guy made my day! The only thing Acer products are good for is PLASTIC RECYCLING HAHAHAHA!
MDN : WE can’t wait to revisit this one. How stupid can one man be? He should be fired just for making that statement! Geez ya think he’s related to Balmer?
In two years iPads will be two years better and Acer will still be catching up with yesterday’s iPads.
the day Acer makes anything that will overtake ummmmmm ANYTHING let alone an apple product, I’ll switch to Windows.
Acer had 10 years to put out a decent tablet: FAIL!
10 more months isn’t going to make their crapware any better than yet-another iPad ripoff POS.
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As usual these stupid manufacturers just rush in to the space without a plan. They will end up fighting with each other over Market share with price and volume that will result in junk.
But as always. What ever the other players do, what Market share they get and even if they over take Apple in volume it does not matter. iPad will still be the device to beat and iPad will get the majority of the profits in this space.