﻿ Acer CEO Wang bets on ultrabooks trump tablets: A prescient or
nutty bet? | ZDNet   Summary: Acer's CEO says that the ultrabook
will trump tablet demand, which is seeing the consumer fever die
down. Is he right or delusional?  Acer CEO J.T. Wang had one of
those conference calls on Wednesday that could come back and
haunt him. First, Wang noted that it will be impossible for Acer
to break even for the fiscal year because the second quarter was
a disaster. And then it appears that Wang is banking on the
ultrabook to trump tablets.  And if notebooks don't regain the
interest of consumers? Acer may not break even in 2012 either.
The larger theme on the Acer conference call---which followed a
second quarter marked by inventory writedowns, layoffs,
management turnover and a big loss---was that the company is
betting on Windows 8, Intel and the ultrabook reference design.
Wang made it clear that the ultrabook was Acer's horse of choice
in the mobile computing race. One truly odd thing about Wang's
stance is that