Acer CEO Declares a Tablets Bubble

retroworks writes "According to a story in Digitimes, Acer chairman JT Wang is predicting the end of 'tablet fever.' 'Commenting on tablet PC's impact on the notebook industry, [Acer chairman JT Wang] pointed out that tablet PC fever is already starting to cool down and consumers are also being attracted by notebooks again with Intel's Ultrabooks and Microsoft's Windows 8 the major attractions.' Back to the old model then... PC and laptop sales, driven by Windows upgrades?"

iPad fever?

[mveloso]

Is he talking about iPad fever or lame tablet/netbook fever?

If the former, he can wait until Apple's next quarterly results. If the latter, well, he's probably right. Maybe he's talking from his own sales numbers?

Re:Obligatory XKCD

[Osgeld]

ketchup!

(see, that has no relevance to the article either)

Well...

[sootman]

I guess it hasn't been proven scientifically that wishing doesn't work... Good luck with that, Mr. Wang!

Strange Spellings

[MightyMartian]

I didn't know "prays" was spelled "d-e-c-l-a-r-e-s"

Re:Fever?

[todrules]

Sad but true.

Citation needed.

Metallica - The Black Album

Re:Lets compare

[MightyMartian]

I guess he can join the guy at Decca Records who rejected four young chaps from Liverpool and told their manager that "Guitar groups are on their way out."

Re:Fever?

[mjwx]

Honestly, I am 30X more productive than the guys at work that dont have one. I carry autocad files with me to review and show. I annotate pdf files etc...

As long as everyone else is 60 X less productive to compensate for what the Ipad cant do.

Richard Boss [[e-mail]]
RE:Schedule for Job XYZ-221
Jesus Rollerblading Christ Bob, just use your laptop.

Bob Wanker [[e-mail]]
RE: Schedule for Job XYZ-221
But I want to use my iPad.

John Worker [[e-mail]]
RE:Schedule for Job XYZ-221
No Bob, it's a 12 MB document, use your laptop.

Bob Wanker [[e-mail]]
RE: Schedule for Job XYZ-221
Can you PDF this and email it to me, I cant access the network on my iPad

John Worker [[e-mail]]
Schedule for Job XYZ-221
Initial costing for this job is complete, the xls is on //server/share/clientfiles/xyz-221/costing-jw-xyz221.xls

And about 2 days later.

Bob Wanker [[e-mail]]
RE: Schedule for Job XYZ-221
I havent been able to open the file on my iPad.

Can you PDF it and email it to me.

John Worker [[e-mail]]
RE: Schedule for Job XYZ-221
Bob,

I'm waiting for you to complete your part of the project costing. I can't send it to the client until you've entered your estimates.

RAGE (and loss of productivity)