MacDailyNews Take: Apple’s got them scared to death. We’d say “scared shitless,” but Acer et al. keep releasing products.
Hwang and Tsai report, “Shih pointed out that Apple deserves to be respected, since it has a completely different strategy than other PC brands. Apple CEO Steve Jobs has always been looking for revolution, while other PC brands evolved naturally and are developing products in a more solid way, Shih commented.”
MacDailyNews Take: Solid. As opposed to runny.
Hwang and Tsai report, “Shih used the example of the competition between Microsoft’s Windows and Apple’s Macintosh OS and noted the Apple has always looked down on Windows and believes it lacks creativity. But Windows’ open platform has attracted the adoption of most PC brands, Shih said adding that, Apple’s PC market has turned out to be limited, with a market share far less than the open Windows platform group.”
MacDailyNews Take: Can the founder of a PC company really not understand the difference between market share and revenue share? Apparently, he can. Apple has margins and revenue share about which Shih can only dream. Apple owns the premium personal computer market. Owns. Acer peddles low-grade commodity PCs. If you had a choice, would you rather be Apple, the envy of multiple industries and markets, or a dime-a-dozen PC assembler choke-collared on a leash held tight by Ballmer T. Clown? Tough choice, huh?
Hwang and Tsai report, “Shih noted that Google’s Android operating system is already attracting a lot PC brands to develop related products and this is one of the factors that proves that PC brands will eventually be able to isolate Apple.”
MacDailyNews Take: He doesn’t get it. Obviously, it doesn’t take much to found yet another PC box assembler. Michael Dell, for another example. iOS is not the Mac OS. The critical mass has long ago been achieved. Hundreds of millions of iOS devices are out there. Tens of thousands of developers and third-party accessory makers are catering to the iOS platform. To see how iOS vs. Android will turn out, look not at the Mac, but at iPod.
Hwang and Tsai report, “Shih also predicted that US-based PC vendors will eventually quit the PC market in the long term, and pointed to IBM’s sale of its PC department to Lenovo is one of the signs.”
MacDailyNews Take: And eventually, the sun will sputter out, too. Shih seems to have missed Apple’s record Mac sales; quarter after quarter after quarter…
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: If the “cure” for the “Apple product virus” is Acer junk, we hope to be infected forever.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dow’s iPad” for the heads up.]
MDN take is spot on!!! These folks a scared shitless.
wtf’s a virus ?
oh that thing pc’s get
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@MDN
Amen!!
“Apple CEO Steve Jobs has always been looking for revolution, while other PC brands evolved naturally and are developing products in a more solid way”…
And what products did the Acer brand develop? Someone, please help me out…
“the competition between Microsoft’s Windows and Apple’s Macintosh OS and noted the Apple has always looked down on Windows and believes it lacks creativity. But Windows’ open platform has attracted the adoption of most PC brands”…
Only because the PC brands didn’t have the availability to license Mac OS onto their machines! Hello!!
The cure they will find is called Bankruptcy. Their own!
Man ALIVE! I have heard it all.
In keeping with this analogy it is safe to assume the “mutant viruses” will continue to mutate, i.e. evolve. As soon as you find an appropriate anti-viral, a new stronger even more virulent strain will develop.
Eventually the organisms normally attacked by the virus succumb, often building a symbiotic relationship with the contagion. It might behoove PC box makers like Acer to skip ahead to the last chapter of this horror story and start building iPad accessories.
Ahahahahaha!!!!!!
I would like to share a revelation that I’ve had during my time as a software developer. It came to me when I tried to characterize the effects of Windows, and I realized that Windows is not actually an OS. Every OS on this planet is developed to improve the productivity of its computing hosts; but Windows is not. Instead it collects crufty pieces of code, and multiples its registry, until every resource is consumed and the computer is deemed worthless. The only way for Windows to survive is to spread to new computers. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern… a virus. Windows is a disease, a cancer on this planet, a plague, and iOS… is the cure.
You can imagine they have a R & D facility with an iPad clone running. With Android 2.2.
And every time he sees “another bloody iPad,” he gets a little madder knowing he has an inferior product that he can’t make a profit on.
How cheap would their tablet have to be to sell?
Eventually they’ll figure it out: game over new order.
When this guy talks about Macs as being a mutant virus compared to the mob of PCs, I thought of the Twilight Zone episode “The Eye of the Beholder”. (Except Apple isn’t trying to change to fit everyone else.)
LoL……. I must admit I read the first take 3 times b4 I got it.
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When I got it, I effin loled my arse off. Really clever
I’m sorry MDN, I think you missed it. It’s not “Solid. As opposed to runny.” It’s “Solid. As opposed to new, inventive and evolutionary.”
sweet take MDN
The Windows, or PC, ecosystem is based on an American company creating, managing, and licensing mediocre code to exploitative Chinese or Korean hardware manufacturers. In Asian societies the value of human life is, well, worth a few dollars a month for laboriously mind-numbing labor, in other words, almost nothing. In the eyes of Acer, Asus, Samsung, and all the others, human life is just a tad more valuable than a machine.
Shih can speak with such superiority only because of the degree he can exploit others living in his society. He’s correct, the US PC companies will leave the industry entirely soon, driven out by the relentless exploitation of docilely subservient Asian labor.
MDN, your first take nearly made me spit coffee all over my computer screen.
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It is spot on!
I think it’s really sad that Apple consistently has a corner on the market. Apple doesn’t use black magic or alien technology to develop products. It’s simply the skill of some motivated people in the right environment.
Why is it that consumers can plainly see the difference between Apple products and everyone else’s, but these execs cannot? They seem to think their failure is due to a lack of feature-laden stickers on their products.
“One day soon,” Shih says, “we will figure out the right quantity of stickers for our products and Apple will bleed.”
It still kills me that the PC industry had a 10 year “head start” to develop tablets, and now, all of a sudden, they all get it when it comes to how tablets should be done.
And all the PC Android fanboys rip Apple while they bask in the fruits, albeit backwards and clunky derivatives, of those efforts.
Bull, Shih.
Ah yes, the very same mutant genes that allows the survival of the fittest…
Acer has just knifed himself. If thats the case, Apple will dominate the entire market
Mike T.,
No, you missed it.
In the take to which you refer, MDN is calling non-Apple PC brands’ products shit. Solid or runny, they’re all shit.
“PC brands evolved naturally and are developing products in a more solid way, Shih commented.””
Beige, it’s always Boring, Bland, Beige.
I think this is taking place at a PC OEM conference in Taiwan. Yesterday we had the Samsung guy talk about DRAM demand dropping due to iPad sales hurting notebook orders. Today, we get the Acer guy encouraging the OEM industry that they’ll solve their problems, kind of like Nokia’s Oily Pecker whistling past the graveyard.
The number of people I know personally who have bought their first Mac in the past 12 months is mind boggling. Keep in mind I live in a small rural community.
Apple has always been a revenue share company. But hell, they might become a revenue and market share company of the Acers of world really believe what they’re spewing.
This was awesome. I haven’t laughed so hard about tech in a long while.