“Acer vice president Scott Lin pointed out that ultrabooks from notebook brand vendors will mostly be released in the fourth quarter and start mass shipping in early 2012; therefore, estimates for ultrabooks to account for 30% of the global consumer notebook shipments by the end of 2012 are reasonable and tablet PCs will be the first products to be impacted by ultra books,” Aaron Lee and Joseph Tsai report for DigiTimes.
MacDailyNews Take: Proof that “tablets” will be the first products impacted by ultrabooks? None given by either the reporters or the Acer VP who’s trying to protect his ass.
Lee and Tsai report, “Sources from PC players also pointed out that although tablet PC shipments in 2011 are expected to reach 62.5 million units, with Apple reportedly to cut its iPad 2 orders, while HP and RIM had both suffered from unsatisfactory tablet PC sales, indications are that tablet PC shipment growth is already slowing down.”
MacDailyNews Take: Fiesta o’ FUD. Please see:
• JPMorgan analyst Moskowitz: Report of Apple iPad cuts by JPMorgan Asia staff not view of U.S. team – September 26, 2011
• There are no iPad cuts; some production has moved to Brazil – September 26, 2011
“The sources also noted that tablet PCs are considered data consumption products, unlike PCs which are data creation products,” Lee and Tsai report. “Once consumers purchase a tablet PC, the chance for them to replace the device is rather low; meanwhile, desktops and notebooks need to be replaced after a while.”
MacDailyNews Take: Tablet PCs (meaning iPad, of course) are considered to be data consumption products by whom? Acer’s deer-in-the-headlights VP and some people who’ve never used an iPad. iPads are data creation products (see: Numbers, Pages, iMovie, and thousands of other data creation apps) and anyone who says differently is either dreaming of the salad days of high margin netbooks or they have no earthly idea what they’re babbling about.
Lee and Tsai report, “In additional news, Acer announced its Ultrabook Aspire S3 on September 28 in Taiwan.”
MacDailyNews Take: Hence the reason for this blatant, desperate, transparent, thinly-disguised Acer press release from DigiTimes’ dynamic duo of poppycock. More reasons for this piece of tripe are chronicled in our list of related articles below.
Now, we must have missed it: When did Acer buy DigiTimes?
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
Related articles:
Acer posts deeper than expected loss as iPad effect deepens – August 24, 2011
Windows laptop makers can’t catch up to Apple’s revolutionary MacBook Air – August 14, 2011
Acer founder: iPad, MacBook Air are short-term fads – August 5, 2011
Acer cuts laptop shipments in Apple iPad’s post-PC world – June 28, 2011
Beleaguered Acer lowers laptop expectations, slashes tablet shipment target by nearly 60 percent – June 15, 2011
Admitting iPad is perfectly sized, Acer delays 7-inch Android tablet – May 25, 2011
IDC: Apple passes Acer in Q1 2011 U.S. market share – April 13, 2011
Apple makes roadkill of deer-in-the-headlights CEOs – April 1, 2011
Acer CEO and President Gianfranco Lanci resigns – March 31, 2011
Surging iPad shipments propel Apple to #1 in worldwide mobile computer market share – February 16, 2011
He obviously has never used an iPad.
He has made comments like this before. Just wants attention. If he didn’t, no one would know they are making an ultrabook
That’s what I thought. And i don’t think their ultra book will be able to compete with a macbook air…
He’s lonely.
if ultrabooks were going to dent tablet sales then we woukd already see this in the sales figures for macbook air – the only ultrabooks on the market. But this is not the case – macbook air sales have been at the expense of windows notebooks and perhaps macbook pro…
I agree wholeheartedly with Acer- Except that after seeing the ” Ultrabook Aspire S3″, I bought (and LOVE!) a new MacBook Air.
Poor Acer! Can’t win for losing.
what the Amazon Fire is going to kill is all the cheap Acer, Asus, et al low end tablets.
Acer will be bankrupt in three years. maybe two.
Acer probably out of business in 5? Really Scott, a little too late, don’t you think!
HP out and Rim slashing prices for their playbook and Ultrabooks ….. Don’t think so.
You ever try an iPad .
Ultrabooks have a purpose, note the MacBook Air. But, an ultrabook is no tablet and is not easily whipped out of a purse or grabbed from the front seat of a truck.
Tablets, AKA iPad, will continue to climb as more people tote these in hand and surf, read, and create content while we wait in those Starbucks coffee lines.
Acer has lost the plot on what Apple product they are copying. The ultrabook is copying they Mac Book Air, not the iPad. If the Mac Book Air has not made a dent in iPad momentum then do you really think these ultrabooks are going to?
Umm, “high margin netbooks”?
Aside from the MacBook Air when has this beast existed for any other manufacturer?
I have a a feeling that Acer’s ultrabooks will be Number One Plus.
“Ultrabook” = “expensive netbook”
If cheap netbooks are dying versus iPad, what hope is there for expensive netbooks. The only “ultra” laptops that continue to have recording-breaking sales numbers are MacBooks (thanks in part to the “halo” from iPhone and iPad).
That man is living in a dream world. That dude said the same thing about Windows netbooks hurting the iPad. Since that didn’t work out, he’s moved on to something else.
The MacBook Air is already hurting the Windows ultrabook and yet it doesn’t seem to be hurting iPad sales.
Apple is the only company that can make decent profit from every device they make. There’s just no way individual PC manufacturers can compete against Apple in building hardware. Apple’s economies of scale are getting larger and larger by the day. Apple set a standard of quality and pricing that will be nearly impossible to match and absolutely impossible to beat. Apple is building the finest products that consumers actually enjoy using. Since Apple product usage is growing the products must not be seen as over-priced by consumers. The quality and price seems to be a match as far as many consumers are concerned.
I think there are many consumers just buying Apple products because they trust the brand. They know they’ll always have someone to help them if something goes wrong with what they purchased. Hand-holding honestly can’t be over-rated when it comes to customers.
DigiTime constantly publish mis-leading reports or colored information; few days ago it published news stating Apple start selling iPad 2 in China on Sept 26th, 2011 and there were no lines, so iPad 2 sales in China is a major failure.. But the true is iPad 2 started selling in China months ago, and it was iPad 2 with 3G that started selling on Sept 26th. iPad 2 has been hot selling item in China. Grossly miss-leading information. This kind of journalism should be banned or boycotted.
Who among us isn’t dreaming of owning an Acer Ultrabook Inspire 3?
Laydies and gentleman, please welcome the new Steve Ballmer!!!!!!
The Asain Ballmer: Mon Kee Phat
The iPad is a different animal than other tablets, netbooks, and kindles. Musicians are actually creating albums with the Garageband and other apps, something you certainly can’t do on a cheap new Kindle. Nor would I want to on any PC.
…What else can Acer say?
One has to claim: “We shall overcome!” just not to be buried too soon!…
i smell an Acer/RIM merger in the air-where he can join the co-ceo’s and form a triumvirate of delusional morons
msft will acquire them in bankruptcy and then monkey boy will own the delusional moron market
I saw bigfoot.
Elvis is alive!!!
Acer began life in 1976 as MultiTech by making two Apple II clones. Acer still tries to copy Apple design with their PCs.
Though they exist in Taiwan as a capitalistic Chinese company they build all their PC hardware using the cheap communist chinese in mainland China.
Ummm… Apple is based out of the capitalist state of California and make their hardware in cheap communist China as well. I think bashing Acer for doing so while entering your response on your Apple product is very ignorant.
I thought the iPad was not considered a computer? It was just a new segment in the electronic devices catagory. If the computer companies want to include the iPad in their discussions, then they also need to include the iPad in the computer sales category for world wide sales. Then again, if they did that, Apple would show up as a huge slice of the pie thus making the other companies look worse than they are in market share.
Oh, I’m just so confused…
CYA. Period.
Whaddya expect these bozones to say,”The iPad’s kicked our ass. We quit.”? Nonetheless, it sho’ look like the PC Playas be in a whole heap o’ trouble.
“Tsai” in Chinese, and depending on the dialect, means sh*t.
How apt. 🙂
Hurry! Get the FUD out now, Now, NOW!! before the record gets set straight on Tuesday.
Unlike the rest of the tablets, iPad is for data consumption AND creation. It is THE device that I take everywhere (with my iPhone). The MacBook pro stays home 98% of the time. On trips, the flexibility, usefulness, size and battery life make the iPad the clear choice. Plus with iteleport or gotomypc etc. you can use your computer remotely (as I do regularly).
I use Pages all of the time, and made a very impressive Keynote presentation on my last business trip in a couple of hours. It was for all intents and purposes, every bit as useful as the Mac version. Plugged it into the overhead projector, used the keynote remote iPhone app and voila!!
Anyone hear if Airdrop would be included in iOS 5? Bluetooth sharing of data OS-wide would be incredible and very helpful for the happy throngs that have figured out that iPad is not just a fad, and not just a (wonderful) toy, but a great tool as well.