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Give him a break! ;-) He was already looking at Acer as the biggest player in the netbook field and now Apple put all the netbooks in a corner. And Acer has n
by pietrofmaggi 16y ago
Give him a break! ;-)
He was already looking at Acer as the biggest player in the netbook field and now Apple put all the netbooks in a corner.
And Acer has now to invest some money to develops Android tablets, and it seems to me that they are a bit late on this.
- jrockway 16y agoIsn't Asus the big netbook player? They "invented" them, anyway.
- pietrofmaggi 16y agoYes Asus, with the eee PC, invented the netbook segment, but is Acer that has the leads: - Acer leads netbook market while Apple loses market share http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2008/dec/10/acer-asus-netbooks http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2008/dec/10/acer-a... - Netbook Will Reach 26.32 Million Units and Take 17.2% of the Total Notebook PC Market in 2009 http://www.displaybank.com/eng/info/sread.php?id=4412&pg=1&device2=7 http://www.displaybank.com/eng/info/sread.php?id=4412&pg... 2009 Top5 Netbook Shipment Result/Forecast | Rank | Maker | Shipment(K units) | Share | |-------+---------+-------------------+-------| | 1 | Acer | 11,300 | 42.9% | | 2 | ASUSTek | 6,450 | 24.5% | | 3 | HP | 1,810 | 6.9% | | 4 | MSI | 1,110 | 4.2% | | 5 | Dell | 940 | 3.6% | But things are now changing: - Apple's iPad nabs Netbook market share: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-20007756-64.html http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-20007756-64.html And forecast are gunning the netbooks segment: - Forrester: Tablets To Outsell Netbooks By 2012 http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Forrester-Tablets-To-Outsell-bw-3354414880.html?x=0 http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Forrester-Tablets-To-Outsell-b... Are really netbooks on the extintion list? I think so.