Wow, a mutant virus? This analogy may sound like a ringing bell for another
cat fight on the playground, but
Acer founder and retired chairman Stan Shih is actually semi-praising
Apple here. Speaking at the launch of an Acer touch-themed design competition, Shih said that while Apple's taking the "revolution" highway to tackle the PC market, Acer's success has always depended on its time-consuming but more pragmatic "evolution" strategy, and it'll keep doing so to lay the ground for the next 30 years or so. Here's how
China Times paraphrased Shih:
"Apple is like a mutant virus, escaping from the traditional structure of the PC industry, but the industry will still eventually build up immunity, thus further blocking this trend, and we believe the size of the non-Apple camp will exceed Apple's, because this is how the industry normally evolves."
Assuming the second half of Shih's quote refers to the
tablet market share, this certainly
echoes the words of his good friend JT Wang. That said, this is also the man who's boldly
predicted that all American PC brands will be gone within 20 years, but there's no promise that Apple won't be kicking out a few more revolutions in the coming years. Anyway, doesn't Acer have more to
worry about for the mean time?
