The maker of the worst laptop we have ever owned, Acer, has started swinging her handbag at the software king of the world, Microsoft.
Just lately we have noticed that every time the word Microsoft is mentioned near an Acer exec, you have to stand back to avoid the spit.
It started last year when Microsoft announced their Surface RT tablet, which basically was moving onto Acer’s own turf and doing a Nintendo on the cricket stumps.
Other manufactures talked about what a great partner Microsoft was really and how confident they were in own products. Fortunately they were right and Microsoft was wrong and the RT has now been remaindered.
Acer was not at all polite when the Microsoft announcement came out. CEO J.T. Wang threw his toys out of the pram, howled like a banshee and had to be taken to bed early.
Wang dubbed the Surface a mistake and even told Microsoft to “think twice” before making it. Again he was right, but Microsoft really did not need to be told off by one of its OEMs long before it cocked up.
Now Acer co-founder Stan Shih has been ordering wax effigies of Steve Ballmer to be nailed to crucifixes.
During a recent media conference he declared that the Wintel alliance members were “doomed… all doomed” and would suffer the death of a thousand paper cuts.
He said that the Wintel camp is destined to fail since the two giants have been hording all the profits.
This means that many players are being pushed into the arms of that Whore of Babylon, Google, who is letting them play loose with her Android ways.
“Since Wintel’s business strategies can no longer create profits for partners, many downstream IT players have turned to other ecosystems to seek profitability”, Shih said,
It is not that people really want to go to an open platform strategy, after all, Linux is an open platform and no one wants it.
Shih said that for any ecosystem to have a chance of growing and staying strong, it must have leadership adopting strategies that allow all partners to earn profits. Clearly he did not go to the same biology class we did. We thought it had something to do with phosphorus.
