Acer founder says tablets like iPad are a fad

I have a Galaxy TAB, it’s a fine piece of hardware but I found out that anything I can do on my TAB I can do better, faster and more conveinent on my Laptop, anything, I no longer carry or use my TAB, I have to agree with the headline, tablets are a solution without a problem to fix and will die off soon.

What he said was me dumb mutter fuckie and have little pee pee.

… A fad he wishes he was apart of.

Not a fad, but not exactly the naughty boy some where professing either.

I was skeptical of any tablet…not sure if I’d use it. Now, I use my Galaxy tab 10.1 all the time, and love it for travelng, accessing google docs, games, reading books. I don’t think it’s a fad as far as form factor goes.

These tablets have their own role and they’re taking over netbooks notwithstanding netbooks are real computers.
You can pop in home screen right away by pressing a power button. No waiting.
Tablets can be used as e-book readers, video players, or just quick internet when phone screen is small for eyes.
I have 2 tablets and I leave a netbook behind.

I agree with him but partially though, owned an archos tablet an iPad and  Asus TF ended up selling archos and  iPad on ebay and returning Asus back to bestbuy, two things: 1)the form factor,  while its  comfortable to type with two thumbs on  a smartphone it absolutely sucks on a tablet in anyway you look at it. 2) tablets and smartphones often have very simular hardware specs. and perform the same functions, use the same apps etc. otherwords they differ from smartphones only in size which is their main drawback. the real laptop (whether its a mac or windows or linux) will always be a better choice. although i disagree with him about netbooks, I think tablets are a niche products just like netbooks, they both have the same screen size and lack features like CDrom and certain ports, have less memory HD size and so on. a real laptop will have all those specs and portability for those people who need to work outside of their office. other than that, smarpthone is always with you on the go and will give the same features/functionalities as a tablet  but with utlra pocketable portability.

I do think there is something to be said for differentiating tablets from smartphones. These “phones” are getting larger and larger and more and more powerful. How much longer will it be before we see a 5 inch or larger “phone”. These powerful slate devices are definitely great but I just wait to see if they are going to merge into a single device or stay separated on size. In short I think the tabets size is both its greatest strength and weakness depending on what you plan on using it for.

Tablets have a place but replace nothing.

Didn’t the haters all say apps are a fad?? 3 years later they are still around and even way more popular!!

If I had shares in Acer, I would have sold them right away.  I will not invest in a company whose CEO can not see future and calls tablets as fad.  iPad and tablets are here to say.  They were long over due.  Once cloud computing comes in, you will see notebooks and desktops disappearing, and replaced with cloud computing where you will have tablets linked to mainframes.  Maybe you will see netbooks as a cheaper alternative to tablets but notebooks and desktops are not the technologies of future, it is of the past. Delivery guys can be seen with iPads and tablets for acknowledgements, but they never carried laptops with them

LOL.. and that internet thing will never last either.

thaaaaank you! finally at least someone high enough up has some intelligence to admit it!

goodness, what a moronic statement.

All of Acers products are junk and when you get PCs from them they usually don’t give you enough specs to run it smoothly. My sisters acer laptop had vista on it with 1gb of ram and a 1.8 GHz processor. Terrible, better with Windows 7 on it, but just a terrible idea.

He’s obviously smoking crack! The iPad is not a fad, it’s the future of computing. Hasn’t he learned that when Apple do something that it defines an industry and leads the way forward, changing history forever? Doesn’t he know how successful Apple is, which shows that they know what they are doing?

Not surprising that his company is totally rubbish compared to Apple….

Says the owner of a company that makes the Iconia tab.

I paid $22.85 for an iPhone 4-32GB and my girlfriend loves her Panasonic Lumix GF 1 Camera that we got for $38.76 there arriving tomorrow by UPS. I will never pay such expensive retail prices in stores again. Especially when I also sold a 40 inch LED TV to my boss for $674 which only cost me $62.81 to buy. Here is the website we use to get it all from, CentHub.com

Of course it’s not a fad; sounds a bit like sour grapes to me.

Tablets like the iPad are the perfect tech-phobic parents/grand-parents’ computer.

I know my retired folks don’t use Adobe Photoshop or much else on their laptop, besides Skype, and My Pictures to view photos of the grandkids, and to trade email with their friends.

In fact, when not using Skype or viewing pictures, the laptop sits unused.   For their purposes, and I’m sure many others’ older relatives, the iPad is right up their alley.  In fact, my siblings and I are getting them iPads for the holidays, as we’re tired of trying to handle their over-the-phone tech emergencies like, ‘why ISNT the whatchimacallit with the Skype thingy doing its thing and not working?’ or ‘how do I find those Face picture Books things again…?’

Sure, if you’re writing applications and editing video, you need a full blown laptop/desktop, and a tablet or iPad won’t cut it.

Can he predict winning lottery numbers?