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.]
When the PC box is killed off and Windows is just a bad stain in history, the dead will no longer be infected by the success of the innovative living among us. May that day come soon.
I better Acer would use MacOS if Apple let them.
What’s the guy gonna say? “Apple products are way better than ours”, of course not. The virus analogy doesn’t really work because you get over viruses pretty quickly (except HIV etc).
The reality is that Apple innovate and others follow and copy. In the end they all make money. The only time it didn’t happen was with the MP3 market. Apple completely took over and are still dominating. However android has provided an avenue to compete in the phone and tablet market. It won’t be as good as iOS but just like windoze it will be just good enough to be workable in products.
“Apple’s strong popularity is mainly due to its products”
What can you say? This guy is a business leader? Yes, we will get back to normal soon, and popularity will get back to the way we like it! Mindless zombies following the herd where inept people like Shih can feed off them.
@Nevermark66
Awesome!
Two items….
1) Never ask a problem if its a problem. It will always lies.
2) Android as a tablet OS is like using a hammer to drive in a screw.
Android is NOT a good canidate as a tablet OS. Its being used since the bulk of it ( minus Market Place ) is free! And can run on a portable device. Heck until 2.2 battery management has been a mess. One reason the “other” tablets are 7″ screen is to SAVE POWER!
Like Asus and ther first Netbook. Acer and others have been caught flat footed again… Yea Acer remember that one HD based nettop. If you turned the audio volume up too loud would litterly put the Windows OS into a slower mode to access the HD!
They just dont get it and probably never will…
MDN… please iCal this moron. This is going to be a second ISIDAGTMBTTS!
Stan Shih is really clueless. The tsunami is upon the beach now. It is not just the hardware, it the whole deal from OS, chip design, local and on line stores, smooth compatibility between products, a 500% larger server farm, quality, customer loyalty, …
Even the Windows ONLY software suppliers are jumping ship. AutoCAD will be Mac OS X. QuickBooks finally is making a multi-user version for Mac OS X. etc.
Is it that they know and think we can’t see it happening? About 75% of the freshman in college are caring MacBooks and iPod touch devices!!! TSUNAMI COMING SHIH!!!
“But Windows’ open platform …”
Windows? Open platform? WINDOWS?!
Wow. Give me some what Stan Shih’s smoking. Or, wait… On second thought, don’t. I’d miss all those braincells.
first take is a winner
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@Nevermark66
That was AMAZING, I`m memorizing your post so when one of my unwashed windrone “peers” spouts off some verbal diarrhea about how great MS is I can leave him with that description of windows to chew on.
You are a truly a wise sage.
In Feb Acer president Scott Lin said why Acer won’t build tablets and why it can’t compete with Apple (Feb is when analysts thought Apple would be lucky to sell 1 m iPads a year).
Digitimes:
“Lin pointed out that designing an iPad-like device would not pose any technical challenges for Acer, but said such a product does not fit into Acer’s business model.
Historically, closed platforms are typically limited in terms of scale and are confined to niche markets. Apple has built is business out of carving its own niche, 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, Lin noted.”
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Of course most of his excuses is crap but he got one part right : “players are unlikely to be able to replicate its result simply by copying,”
Let me see. Acer revolutionized… the best BullShih I’ve read so far.
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@MDN. You keep repeating like a mantra “To see how iOS will turn out look not at Mac (vPC) but iPod”. But with android gaining market share, it is looking much more like the former than the latter. No a Verizon iPhone will not change much, some of us live in markets where the iPhone is already available on all carriers, and the android juggernaut is still gaining momentum.
It looks likely the iPhone will still be the phone to aspire to, and the and iOS will be as superior to it’s competitors as OS X is, but you’re kidding nobody if you think Apple is heading for the marketshare dominance with iOS that it has enjoyed with the iPod in MP3 space.
Apple is like a virus? Really?!?
Well, when the PC industry eventually find its cure, they’ll find Apple’s virus will have mutated into something completely different and still be ahead of the game.
And OK, maybe Android is gaining in popularity – at Microsofts expense!
Even PC losers don’t use Acer. That is just pure shit computers. Like the CEO.
Can we iCal you, too?
PC makers are starting to use Android because the CAN’T use Mac OS X. Please. Dell has wanted to build OS X boxes for years, but Apple won’t let them.
The only reason Android is being considered by PC makers (and its adoption is rather slow) is that Android is a much cheaper option than Windows. That’s why most Android boxes are netbooks and (supposedly) upcoming tablets. PC makers can’t use Windows and still compete with Apple on price, because they can’t beat Apple on the form-function-joy of use combination.
“Apple’s got them scared to death. We’d say “scared shitless,” but Acer et al. keep releasing products.”
BEST. MDN take. EVER.
Acer is a bottom of the barrel PC at best. They had some luck with netbooks, but those are dead now. Guess he’s just full of Shih
@kevt:
Apple already has market dominance with the iOS: the iPad. Not PC builder is even close, and they won’t get close.
The smartphone market is something very different from either the PC or iPod markets. Millions, if not billions, of people had some kind of mobile phone when the iPhone came out, and some were even smartphones (blackberries, Treos, etc.). The iPhone absolutely changed the idea of what a smartphone should be.
Apple is still gaining market share in the smartphone arena, but there likely will always be more than two big players. What you failed to notice is that while Android’s share is growing (it is the newest kid on the block, after all, so it had nowhere to go but up), the platform is becoming more and more fragmented and is now starting to get malware.
People aren’t going to stand for their phone functioning like their Windows PC – Blues Screens of Death, crashes, or viruses/trojans hijacking their private info will result in that phone being thrown away for something more secure.
Like the iPhone.
Android has the same ‘openness’ as Windows – you cannot download the OS and must licence it. This will make it harder for MS to re-enter the mobile market. I think they will ‘pull an IBM’ and retreat to providing servers and services.
The unsung heroes are the developers of SoundJam. It was their software that Apple bought and enabled the iTunes juggernaut which sold millions of iPods that funded MacOS X that funded iOS that enables the iPhone, AppleTV and iPad.
@Nevermark66
Nice. Excellent use of one of the best moments in the Matrix.
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Wow, that Shih really spews out a bunch of nonsense. I wonder if he believes any of this crap? I doubt that even the most militant windows whore believes it.
Sun-Tzu said, “If a Taiwanese computer manufacturer wants to win in the free market, it must create a superior product.”
He also said, “Talk is cheap.”
MDN’s iPod analogy is off. iPhone vs Android is more akin to Mac vs Windows, as you have a software maker licensing its OS to multiple hardware makers, and competing software development platforms, which wasn’t the case in the music player market.
Now and again you really get to see what kind of shitheads are running these big companies.