

Chrome makes up as much as 10% of Acer's US sales




Acer C7 Chromebook



Source: Bloomberg

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By Suo.Eno on 1/29/2013 4:04:48 AM , Rating: 2
Here's why.. I use Win 8 Pro x64. It's not that bad but admittedly there are enough valid criticisms about it but that's me and I'm an end user so let's get back to the topic shall we?

If I were Acer and I'm an OEM partner to an OS platform that literally have made the company's name, in this day and age w/ the market position that I have, efforts would be better spent at starting to build internal teams to look at other OS options. With critical criterias such as available expertise and so on etc. That said, on the hardware side clearly there's more than enough room for improvements; product design, build quality, more novel feature sets etc.

Start to consider all these while putting aside some R&D money for reference systems to gain better dev/user support. These days you can't just fall back on Microsoft, yell at them for not speccing out 1 or 2 OS out of the blue to whims and watch that splat on the wall trickle down. Those days are over and serious legwork are a near must.

One may argue that it doesn't make sense to even consider investing in a single percentile potential aka Linux. I think otherwise. If there's nothing wrong w/ Chromebooks then Linux are definitely a far more worthwhile calculable risk.

