The lion will not touch the true prince - Shakespeare, Henry IV, Pt I
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Acer shrugs off the tablet threat
APPLE'S DEAR LEADER Steve Jobs might think that tablets are his gift to the world, but according to Acer's chairman JT Wang, they ain't all that much.
Wang shrugged off Jobs' suggestion that tablet PCs are set to overtake netbooks in terms of consumer demand, saying that initial interest would taper off.
Wang's comments were reported by Digitimes, which said that they came during a summit in Taiwan. Some wag in the audience must have asked the question about Jobs' mad bullish statements and sat back to wait for the fireworks.
Barely a single competitor has ignored the rantings of the polo-necked Svengali of smug, which were reported yesterday, but Wang apparently held back some, and unlike, say, Google's head Android engineer or RIM's CEO, chose to downplay them.
According to Digitimes, Wang said that Ipads were unlikely to have much of a competitive impact, which is counter to Jobs' statements. We are paraphrasing, but yesterday Jobs said something like, "Tablets will smash the netbook market, seduce your wives and steal your daughters. Bow down to them."
Jobs might have taken to his ivory tower to proclaim that rival tablet PCs are dead, but Wang countered that though this might be the case in America, it will not be true for the rest of the world.
How this information will be converted by the Jobs reality distortion field remains to be seen, but we suspect that it will come to the conclusion that there is no world, only America, and that belongs to Apple. µ
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To see who can come up with the least accurate, most biased and hate filled report of what was actually said on the earnings call?
What Steve Jobs said was that iPad and similar devices would make inroads into Laptop sales. That was it. Not that it would kill them and take over the world as seems to being portrayed here.
Regarding THE CURRENT CROP OF 7 INCH tablets, he said that for a number of reasons (not least that even Google say that Android 2.2 isn't suited to tablets, and the form factor wasn't enough bigger than a smart phone to distinguish it's self while losing badly to the phone on the portability front) they were doomed to fail. He didn't preclude other, larger & later models doing well.
You can read the transcript for yourself over here http://seekingalpha.com/article/230710-apple-s-ceo-discusses-f4q10-results-earnings-call-transcript
Actually, according to DailyTech, Jobs also said something like: "Any tablet that dares to compete against the Ipad is dead".
It is nice to see how graciously he accepts the news of Apple's latest bump in sales. If he were a movie-star accepting an Emmy, this attitude of his could be paraphrased as:
"and any actor who DARES try to make a movie after MINE will fail, because MY movies are the GREATEST, and there will be no GREATER than mine, as I am the GREATEST in the world"...(etc., ad nauseum).
Few people would go to any more movies after reading an acceptance speech penned by such a greedy little narcissist of an actor, so I do not feel that such a brash display of shallow thanklessness and greed will help Apple sales, or make anyone feel "good" about patronizing Apple (now or in the future).
http://www.dailytech.com/Apples+Jobs+Any+Tablet+That+Dares+Compete+With+the+iPad+is+Dead/article19925.htm