Acer jumps on board the e-Reader, app store, tablet and Chrome OS bandwagon

By on Jan 26, 2010 at 6:31 AM
eBooks January 26, 2010

acer-handset-logo-closeup

Looking to diversify as it seeks to advance its position from the #2 to the #1 PC manufacturer in the world, Taiwanese manufacturer Acer has laid out a long list of ambitious products slated for launch in 2010. The list includes a new tablet device powered by Windows or Google’s Chrome OS, a netbook powered by Chrome OS, a six inch monochrome e-reader with European distribution as well as an application store for its Android and Windows Mobile-powered smartphones. Acer has a bit of a distance to make up if it wants to occupy the #1 slot as the worlds largest PC manufacturer — it currently has a worldwide PC market share of 13.5% and lags behind leader HP which commands a 19.8% market share. Though they’re hoping this expansion into diverse markets and, in particular, its tablet and netbook offerings will help to propel it forward as it seeks to overtake HP by 2013. Dream big, Acer, dream big.

Read

Tags:
, , , , , , ,
6 Comments

Related Articles

  • jonathan

    Nice to see competition. Acer actually is a very reliable manufacturer and its all over Asia too. I’m interested to see what their product has to offer. My daugther has had an Acer laptop for a good 3 years now and its still pretty solid. I would like to see it sport the Chrome OS.

  • Eloy

    Acer is good as long as your computer is not broken or anything as their after sales support kinda sucks…

  • Mrwirez

    Tablets… I still don’t get.

    • ljp

      It really does seem like they are trying to create a market for demand that doesn’t exist. Which is fine for a company like Apple that can absorb tepid sales of products but some of these companies are going to run into trouble.

  • NuShrike

    Nice picture of the Acer M900. Except, I had to send mine back to Acer twice so far. First time because the mini-usb gave out after 4 months of normal usage.

    Then 2nd time because Acer’s mainboard swap to fix the mini-usb (took a month btw) messed up the touch-screen and the caps-lock light.

    Still waiting for it to come back.. Probably another month?

  • toospetly

    Hello.

    Im new in forum, so Im not sure if I can post this here in general..
    But to the point, what I was asking.. Im from europe and would like to buy things eg. from amazon and ebay, so is it easy and safe to buy with my credit card?
    And if you know good methods to buy things..http://netti-kasinot.net/prkl/e3.GIF Pls tell me.

    Thanks in advance!

blog comments powered by Disqus