MacDailyNews Take: Apple leads. The rest follow at a great distance.
“The new tablets are intended to gradually replace the company’s line of netbook computers, said Acer’s Taiwan sales manager Lu Bing-Hsian. ‘That’s the direction of the market,’ Lu told Computerworld,” Isaac reports. “The company will still continue to produce netbooks, but will begin to phase out its range of netbook models while producing the new line of tablets.”
Isaac reports, “The tablets will run the Android OS (version unspecified)… Acer’s Lu declined to state price points and specific release dates for the new tablet offerings.”
MacDailyNews Take: Watch out, Google’s fake iOS is about to take a beating in public perception as it loses its main selling point on Feb. 10, 2011.
Isaac reports, “Acer’s tablet offerings also appear to completely reverse the company’s position as of only a year ago, when Acer’s Taiwan president Scott Lin said the company had no plans to pursue a tablet option, and that the iPad would be unlikely to impact the netbook market. ‘Apple has built [its] business out of carving its own niche,’ Lin told the DigiTimes last February, ‘which means that while Apple could see success with devices like the iPad, other players are unlikely to be able to replicate its result simply by copying.'”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Steve Jobs makes shifting paradigms seem routine.
WebOs will be the one to watch. It has Apple DNA and HP’s muscle. HP will probably license it to disseminate it.
You know who’s really getting f@#$ed in all of this?
Microsoft.
Think about it. Those netbooks mostly ran Windows. Now the world is moving to tablets. It looks pretty clear that tablets are going to be a two-OS universe, and neither OS will be Windows.
Microsoft is screwed.
——RM
“Acer’s tablet offerings also appear to completely reverse the company’s position as of only a year ago, when Acer’s Taiwan president Scott Lin said the company had no plans to pursue a tablet option, and that the iPad would be unlikely to impact the netbook market. ‘Apple has built [its] business out of carving its own niche,’ Lin told the DigiTimes last February, ‘which means that while Apple could see success with devices like the iPad, other players are unlikely to be able to replicate its result simply by copying.'”
Ahahahahaha… “put foot in mouth syndrome”
There’s going to a huge decline in Windows 7 licenses bought this year, perhaps 20% ?
*waits with popcorn*
This can’t end well for acer 😀
No future in Netbooks. That was a pretty unambiguous admission.
If netbooks are still around in three years time, it’ll only be because of bottom of the market no name chinese sweatshops will be the only companies left making them.
So much for the people who said the iPad would not cannibalize netbooks.
Sometimes a market segment being cannibalized to extinction is a good thing.
#TimD
“There’s going to a huge decline in Windows 7 licenses bought this year, perhaps 20% ?”
Anyone know about how much the line item for netbook licenses WAS?
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It’s headed down.
Humming…
and another ones down, another ones down, another bites the dust! Say hey…
So Acer’s moving from one losing business to another? 7.33 million iPads and just getting started. Apple, Acer? Hmmmm. LIke choosing between a Ferrari and an ’85 Yugo.
What’s happening feb 10th?
What’s still amazing to me is that none of these tablets from major OEMs (except for the Samsung Tab) are even available yet.
Not the RIM, nor the HP PalmSlate nor the Moto Xoom nor the Acer.
Apple really is going to have the iPad 2 out before these guys get out their answer to the iPad 1.
That was very quick!
The Puppet Master! Just look at him make Acer dance!
“What’s happening feb 10th?”
Feb 10th Verizon iPhone available to order for non Verizon customers, I think! No more unabated competition with Android! “You’re goind doooowwwnnnnn!” says Arnold.
Wow. Amazing. Another Paul Thurrott Prognostication proven to be totally false. He better check his 8-ball again.
“Netbooks” are just cheapo laptops. I don’t think Acer is going to stop making laptops in general, so they won’t stop making (“phase out”) cheapo laptops either.
@ DocMac
> What’s happening feb 10th?
Verizon iPhone goes on sale. I think MDN is saying that Android is going to lose its “credibility” in tablets once it starts competing head-to-head with iPhone (and iOS) on smartphones.
Remember when the commentators and financial analysts warned that Apple needed to get some cheap NetBooks to market, or Apple would badly lose out on this supposedly lucrative market?
I wonder if analysts and bloggers have any more pearls of wisdom that Apple should heed.
Oh, yeah. Here are the other pieces of advice Apple should never abide;
– Apple needs to license its OS.
– smaller, larger iPad.
– split stock, pay dividends.
– run FLASH on APPLE mobile devices.
A year ago, the iPad was not on the market and NOBODY was afraid of an Apple “tablet”. hell, everyone thought the “tablet” market was weak. after all, MS could barely sell enough “tablets” to continue development.
Along comes Apple into the tablet market, and everyone said they were not afraid.
oh how much difference a year makes.
ya know, I’m not sure if any one tried this, but back when those net books were win xp based, you could give the win license back, and Microsoft would force aser to pay you $100, that’s ~ the price of one of those. sure you’d have to install some other os (I’d go with minix or freedos) but you’d get a free machine!
but know you’ll get a tablet that just boots striate into a nasty slow sand boxed jvm. :/ common aser I used to have some respect for you
ah well my 6 yr old mb has done way better (and outlived) all of the laptops we bought from them