HP vs. Acer vs. Apple: The fight to come
Over the last two weeks, I attended a huge HP lab event, watched Apple launch the iPhone SDK brilliantly, and saw one of the strongest consumer laptop lines launched by Acer. All three vendors are growing in the 30% range in the PC market; Acer just passed Dell for the no.2 spot in the notebook market; and all three vendors have smartphone efforts in their infancy.
This leads me to believe there is a collision coming and that it might be fun to talk about each vendor's strengths and weaknesses in the fight.
We will close with my product of the week, which could eventually capture much of what we now call the PC market.
