Acer founder: Android will beat Apple

“Atom-based mobile devices will outsell Apple’s portable gear.”

LOL  , atom based? The slow battery hog that netbooks use? Haha its no match for ARM

android sucks…am not saying ios will rule thou

There’s a reason why Intel isn’t “inside” mobile devices. They consume too much battery-life & require too much power, while “taxing” resources. Intel can’t compete with AMD/Apple’s “SoC” chips-sets (“A” series chips). Since a smartphone or tablet will not be plugged into a wall all day, Intel is pretty useless when in a LOW-power situation. Acer wasn’t the “dollar-store” supplier of cheap, disposable hardware. Now, they’re right where they belong, stuck in irrelevancy. The “Ultra” books is Intel’s last-ditch effort, before they’re in Nokia/HP world!

I don’t see why this is such a big surprise. People act like it some kind of amazing feat being accomplished. Android is an OS installed on dozens of phones by many manufacturers. Of course its numbers would be higher. Apple has 1 phone and 1 tablet.

It sounds more sad than anything to me that android needs so many different devices just to surpass iOS.

In the end I think both apple devices and android based phones will do just fine. Neither is going to just die off. Apple’s got a rabid fan-base that does nothing but stay loyal and grow every year, and android is on so many different devices it would be impossible to eradicate them all.

Why so black and white? Contrary to fanboy belief devices CAN co-exist.

Apple iOS cell phones will continue to exist and prosper for a very, very long time. In fact, Apple probably only needs 20- to 33% of the mobile market to be wildly successful. Google Android and a third phone OS vendor (perhaps Microsoft with Windows Phone) may vie for the larger mainstream (but less profitable) market.

iOS cellular products will continue to be preferred by discriminating buyers who desire the very best integrated hardware and software solutions and a largely advertising-free existence. If it withstands the patent and copyright challenges from Apple and Oracle, Android’s iPhone clones could hold onto to the larger piece of the market made up of consumers who can’t afford the best (or who simply refuse to pay for it), but Microsoft  could step in with clones that vie for these same price-sensitve customers who usually just purchase what is cheapest. Both carrier and ad-based subsidies are attractive to this group.

Google and Microsoft are not really peddling phones to consumers — they are all but giving away cheap phones to sell customer search profiles to advertisers, even as Apple seeks to marginalize search using Apps. Desperate hardware vendors incapable of producing their own operating systems will utilize this software for years (as long as it is practical), but in the very long run, it’s hard to see how this business model doesn’t end up like NEC, Packard-Bell, Compaq, Dell and H-P.

Amazon eReaders will gain some low-end market share too — with customers who don’t need cellular connections or the versatility of a full, hand-held computer.

Whatever the market share breakdown, Apple alone has staked out the top end and the bulk of the profits. Apple doesn’t need dominant share to sustain this success. It just needs to continue to produce the very best products, which it is quite capable of doing.

Tablet computers will be another story. Many people think that tablets don’t need cellular connections, which isn’t really true. No matter — without cheap clones and widespread cellular and/or advertising subsidies, Apple’s best of breed iPad products will continue to dominate tablet sales.

I’m an avid ‘all platforms’ user, so I don’t really have any loyalty to one brand or the other.  However I’ve noticed that Apple users seem to be suffering from selective memory loss in that MS bailed-out Apple from bankruptcy by giving them $100,000 000 roughly ten~12 years ago in return for a now whopping 24% of the company. Guess who’s sitting somewhere quietly retired with a big old smile on his face?
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acer what is acer?

Stan Shit is crazy as a shit-house rat.  If it weren’t for Jobs and Woz there wouldn’t be no Microterd and certainly no Acer.  It’s a nice looking laptop and all that crap but I’d buy a PowerBook before I’d buy that Acer crap.  And somebody needs to feed Stan Shih a cockmeat sandwich…

No shit Sherlock, this isn’t exactly news.  It’s just a question of time and numbers really.  Not to say that crApple won’t thrive they just won’t be leaders of the pack forever.

So a OS on tons of devies is gonna kill a OS that is made by one single company? Isn’t this the guy who gambled on netbooks being the next big thing? 

Acer… they WISH they were Samsung, and Samsung can only copy.   Sad sad Acer.

Too bad we’ll all be dead by the time Android catches up (if it is even possible).

I honestly do not like people comparing iOS and Android. Comparing them as OS’s is great, yes. But comparing them in terms of sales and how many people use them is so stupid. Reason? How many phones is android on? In terms of different manufacturers. ALOT. How many DIFFERENT android phones are on any one carrier? ALOT. How many phones run iOS. ONE! how many phones does each carrier have that run iOS. ONE ( basically ). so, if i could take a wild guess. Its pretty obvious that iOS is much better than android. And Apples lead is far from over… 

Smart, rich, classy people will buy AAPL…..the rest will do what they always do…compromise! There are billions of Chinese and Indians and they will LOVE their Apples; you cannot compare Apples to Androids.

Lmao who’s acer again? Oh yeah, that company that makes whack computers and that horrible iconia tablet that Sucks and I believe stole their name from asus? *joking about the asus comment * well android is beating apple but they won’t kill it. They are like fire and water, and epic battle where no one wins but continuously make sure the other is on the ball.

Apple fans hate android but I put it this way, apple may innovate but it could only take them so far until they come to a dead stop, android is there to make sure that doesn’t happen and you aren’t looking at the same phone every year, aka the 4s. I’m glad android is a game changer and I love that apple is so high that everyone is trying to knock those walls down, except samsung who plainly just fucked up, lmao so let the battles keep rumbling

APPLE WILL WIN THIS FIGHT…all the way to the Customers and then they will laugh in the face of android…i mean do you really think they will beat APPLE…i really don’t see that happening..