Acer’s CEO, “Wang pointed out that Microsoft did not communicate with PC brand vendors prior to announcing its Surface project. Seeing the software designer enter hardware development and turn from a partner to competitor, Wang claimed Acer is not afraid of competition, but said he only wishes to understand the new rules of the game, and so will continue to try to communicate with Microsoft to understand the situation.”
Let me help you understand the situation, Mr. Wang. M$ is messing with OEMs as it has done for the last two decades or longer.
- Acer, your company, reports a sharp drop in revenues for July.
- So did ASUS and Pegatron.
- Foxconn, your competitor, which has diversified away from Wintel had a sharp increase in revenue for July.
Here’s a clue. When M$, one of the world’s largest software companies, tells the world that it’s going to compete with you by announcing a revolutionary new hardware/software system, retailers and distributors are going to make space in the channel for it. M$ has done that for decades with its vapourware. Now they are doing it with hardware. Compounding the issue is the imminent release of “8″. Is the channel making room for “8″ or preparing to sell less Wintel? Get used to declining margins which are already tight, Mr. Wang. If you want greater profitability, you have to escape from Wintel where M$ and Intel will take care of themselves at your expense.
I recommend Debian GNU/Linux for OEMs. It will work for them and their customers and M$ and Intel will have less control over global IT, a good thing.
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Foxconn…had a sharp increase in revenue for July.
According to your own cite: “The growth mainly came from shipments of consumer electronics, Foxconn indicated”. If you read the fine print, they came out with a 60″ LED HDTV in conjunction with Sharp.
I doubt that old JT is going to take any advice from you, Mr. Pogson. Those Chinese are rather taken with themselves and are not going to listen to outsiders, particularly anyone not even in the business.
Clarence Moon Foxconn has started firing over 1 million staff to be replaced by machines.
You really missed it completely. The true cause of Foxconn increase is less Humans required. Everyone wants people in factories better treated. The most cost effective way to achieve that is no Humans at all in factories. Leave them on the street with no job where they are not long a problem to the company.
This kind of Manufacture is really willing to pay for very little. They will not be willing to pay for OS from Microsoft.
Only staff Foxconn is keeping is their programmers, designers and researchers with a set of maintenance staff. Scary enough Foxconn programming teams are larger than Microsoft mostly tied up due to the complexity of current arm chips. 64 bit arm chips will change this so freeing up a lot of embedded coders.
Some factories are returning to the USA and other places for the same reason No Humans required.
Foxconn staff numbers are larger than that of a small island.
Clarence Moon the big picture really does not look good for Microsoft or Humans.
At the same time Samsung joins the WinRT tablet group:
http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/13/3239774/lenovo-dell-samsung-windows-rt-tablets-laptops-confirmed
Obviously Samsung are not to make all their bets on a single OS and OEMs do not feel abused.