“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.]
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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
