U.S. PC Companies Dead in 20 Years, says Acer
Acer to survive while HP and Dell to vanish?
The computer selling landscape has changed considerably over the last 20 years. Some of the moves were impossible to predict, but Taiwanese founder of computer maker Acer thinks he has a pretty good idea of what will happen to his U.S. competitors within two decades' time – disappear.
Acer has surged its way up to being the second biggest seller of computers worldwide, something which is attributable to the company's low-priced offerings and netbooks. The price sensitivity of the consumer is what has Stan Shih, founder of Acer, confident in the Taiwanese company's survival over American rivals.
"The trend for low-priced computers will last for the coming years," said Shih, according to the AFP's quote of a Commercial Times newspaper interview. "But U.S. computer makers just don't know how to put such products on the market... US computer brands may disappear over the next 20 years, just like what happened to U.S. television brands."
What Shih is saying that Dell and HP, both leaders in the North American computer market, could be gone by 2030.
Does your crystal ball read the same as his? Maybe someone in Detroit can help answer.

I predict Tom's Hardware will come up with real news rather than pulling shit out of their ass. You could post that news item next.
I cannot tell you the amounts of PC I have had brought to me that the motherboard or some component on it. You get what you pay for.
I mean what if ACER isnt around...
Acer is the worst company possible cause they provide the worst possible tech support there is by failing to provide necessary tech support documents not only to their customers, but to their own support staff.
Even worse is they take perfectly good companies and they ruin them through acquisition. Cause once they acquire a company, they ruin the tech support and remove all tech documents necessary to the support of the equipment sold by the acquired company.
The Acer Corporate Heads should be Shot Dead for their Sales Ethics.
Which is actually MORE likely. Companies like Dell, Acer, and HP don't make their own laptop hardware. This work is outsourced to companies like compal, and clevo. So, essentially, they don't differentiate from each other in hardware specs, and share very similar costs. That means, in order to sell their product for less than a competitor, they need to shave costs elsewhere in their companies, and in doing so, often the quality of service suffers. And, with consumers, you only get to sell them a lemon once or twice before they decide that they'd rather pay more for the same product with higher quality support. The longer Acer tries to gain marketshare by selling products with inferior service, the more they make consumers aware that they're an inferior brand name.
I... don't get how they're going to do much better than they are, honestly. And, HP is freaking ruthless. Gooooood luck even staying competitive with them, Acer guy. He seems DELUSIONAL to me. And, a Nationalist Prick too.