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Playing catchup is tough when you're this far behind.
Some Windows PC notebook builders are calling for steep discounts from Intel as they don't think the promise of a $300 million ultrabook fund is enough… Having been quoted over $700 in parts to make an 11-inch model to square off against the MacBook Air, they didn't think the $999 target price would be achievable without help.
If the rest of the industry started a response to Apple's new designs immediately—instead of just mocking them the first two years—they'd be in a better position to compete when they realize Apple was right all along.
Tablet Haikus
A Faster Processor Will Save Netbooks? Um, No.
[Acer Taiwan president Scott Lin] believed the dual-core Atom N550 would keep the category going as it gave about 50 percent more performance without hiking the cost, giving users a reason to pick one over a tablet.
So the strike against netbooks vs. tablets is performance? Since when?
The strike against netbooks is the same as it's always been. They aren't laptops, and they aren't cheap laptops. They're cheap cheap laptops. They possess little of what's best about a laptop or tablet, and it seems consumers began to notice.
This isn't new, netbook sales growth started slowing down many months ago, before the iPad realistically could've had a big impact.
No, Mr. Lin, this isn't about cost/performance ratio, it's about the netbook being an idea whose time has gone. Don't look for sustained sales growth upward. The downward spiral began as "real" laptops got cheaper and more desirable. The iPad is simply the proverbial nail in the coffin.
Acer prepping 3 Android 3.0 tablets, they think.
The Taiwan company is purportedly making five-inch, seven-inch and 10-inch tablets that would all use Google's next OS but DigiTimes said it's still deciding on whether or not it should use Qualcomm's Snapdragon or a dual-core NVIDIA Tegra 2, even with just a few months left to go.
They don't know what processor to use, or even who the contractor will be, so how in the heck did they so easily decide there'd be three screen sizes? This makes no sense at all to me. If you're not sure of your own direction (bad enough in and of itself), why would you want to multiply any bad decisions times three?
Acer, take a page from Apple's playbook: make up your mind, make one model that doesn't have to be everything to everybody, and then adjust accordingly (which should consist of just making it better a little bit at a time). Otherwise, you're just flailing.
