Apple products are a mutant virus, but PC brands will eventually find a cure, says Acer founder

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Yen-Shyang Hwang, Taipei; Joseph Tsai, DIGITIMES Asia

Thursday 9 September 2010

Posted on Sep 13, 10:41
I've got a great idea for PC vendors to isolate Apple and become immune: start offering and advertising Linux as a first-class citizen next to Windows. The foundation of Linux and OSX are almost the same. All the Mac goodness at a PC cost.
Posted on Sep 13, 05:31
If Apple do take the market, we'll be in a lot of trouble. Microsoft is a problem and the last thing I want is Apple to be the next problem. Can't we just get rid of these control freaks?
Posted on Sep 12, 16:03
If Windows will beat Mac OS X because of its slow evolution without innovation, why did they copy so many new features from apple? Windows doesn't evolve slowly. They just copy the inventions other people made and sell it.
Posted on Sep 12, 12:02
He's talking about hardware not software. And he's not talking about design, he's talking about Windows' ability to go onto a variety of platforms and architectures while OSX goes on one.

Did you even read the article?
Posted on Sep 12, 07:14
If PC hardware vendors open-sourced their drivers, Apple wouldn't be have the perceived quality advantage that it has at the moment. Within the Apple hardware ecosystem hardware drivers are fully open to auditing. Not so for PC hardware.
Posted on Sep 10, 22:04
Acer is a joke, and so is this article.
Posted on Sep 10, 19:02
Comments from who? The owner of a company that makes the definitive "cheap" computer that no one wants.
Posted on Sep 10, 13:58
Yes Acer are so successful in the market place. Where do their revenues appear against Apple's? Way back in the rear view mirror.Of course I am sure Acer will do something innovative someday, dammed if I know what it is...
Posted on Sep 10, 10:37
Apple has been the cure for the Windows virus. Microsoft's business model is in being a cash cow for the enormous support, training, and security industries it spawns. Apple's business model is revolutionizing the tech world.
Posted on Sep 10, 10:32
The key sentence is "profits from PC products will only fall lower and lower". This will probably drive the PC industry to "innovate" in one direction-how to make things cheap. This leaves Apple the outlier virus with profit.
Posted on Sep 10, 05:36
You can smell this guy's fear. The ecosystem that's in place for these "mutant viruses" is so well developed it will take years (if it's even possible) for competitors to catch up. Despite the growing popularity of Android OS.
Posted on Sep 10, 02:52
Shih's claim about the "open VHS" format is a crock. VHS won because "Behind the Green Door" was released on VHS and not Beta (Beta couldn't do more than 60 minutes originally). It was porn that drove the massive sales of VHS machines.
Posted on Sep 10, 02:29
Shih mistakes creative innovation his company failed to discover for a "mutant virus".
Posted on Sep 9, 23:58
Acer is throwing stones.
Who would even want an Acer???!!!!!!
Posted on Sep 9, 23:40
Shih's self-serving comments are based on his fear of being totally overwhelmed by trends he doesn't, and perhaps cannot understand.
Posted on Sep 9, 23:24
As an Apple shareholder, I don't care if Windows PCs hold majority unit market share as long as Apple holds majority revenue market share. If enough discerning consumers with disposable income choose Apple, that's good enough for me.
Posted on Sep 9, 22:51
What else is this extremely biased source supposed to say? Acer is in big trouble?
Big of him to 'respect' Apple and then refer to them as a virus. Very funny.
Posted on Sep 9, 22:04
Hey Shih. The last PC innovation was what again?
Posted on Sep 9, 20:20
As someone who sold computers for Best Buy (1996) we fondly called the Acer Aspire the Acer Asspie. This company will one day be regulated to the dustbin of history.

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