According to DigiTimes (Taiwan), the traditional PC manufacturers feel unable to compete in the tablet to tablet production will decrease in 2012.
Abstracted information from the component suppliers, DigiTimes says many companies such as HP, Dell, Acer and Asus realized they had no interest to participate in a market where the "players" like Apple, Amazon and Barnes & Noble holding too much content system should be able to "bury stamping" competition by lowering prices and products will be offset by trading books, music, applications ...
Fire Amazon Kindle is sold for $ 200 USD and Barnes & Noble will soon introduce Nook Simple Touch only 100 USD - the price that the hardware manufacturers simply can not be profitable to run under. Analysts also believe that in the long run, the two "online bookstore" but found no other hardware to customers so they used as tools to buy and consume content. Meanwhile, Apple accounted for 80% of the stock tablet diverse applications, for the small slice of the remaining firms.
This step does not seem surprised when HP TouchPad has completely failed to cease production, while RIM also have to accept losses PlayBook to sell for only 250 USD in a number of retail dealers targeted increase sales. Although market participants are tablet, president of Acer JT Wang in August also appreciate the ultra-lightweight laptop Ultrabook and predicting the dying of the fever tablets, that are excited about this product will cool down and then the client will "love" laptop back.
However, Acer said it would participate in many product areas outside the PC Asus also has plans to release the tablet running quad-core chip next year. Therefore, the Guardian (UK) said the manufacturer did not withdraw completely from this market that they will only stop the introduction of Android tablet to wait the arrival of Windows 8.
Sunday, November 20, 2011
HP, Dell, Acer and Asus will "withdraw from the tablet market"
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