A new Bloomberg Report has shed some light on Acer’s gameplan for the near future. First off, the computing giant (Second-biggest vendor in the world at last count) plans to have its own App Store open by mid-year, (Whether this is the same Intel AppUp-powered store we heard about last month remains to be seen) with an eReader hitting around the same time, said to be a 6-incher, putting it in direct competition with ASUS’s OLED-toting DR-570. The Taiwanese company believes they can make a splash with eReaders outside the US, the strongholds of Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and (probably soon) Apple.
Acer’s President of IT Products, Jim Wong, also said the company was working hard to get a Chrome OS-powered Netbook out the door in the third quarter of the year, which seems to roughly tie in with the OS’s planned release by Google.
All of this is part of a push to raise Acer’s net income margin to 3%, which makes all these moves incredibly logical when put into context – Chrome OS will most likely be free, saving the company on costly Windows licenses, and eBook and App downloads are a goldmine due to the lack of physical product.
Via Liliputing and jkOnTheRun.
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