Comments on: Acer to follow Apple’s example and have its own app store; e-reader possible http://www.htlounge.net/art/11026/acer-to-follow-apple%e2%80%99s-example-and-have-its-own-app-store-e-reader-possible.html Sat, 12 Nov 2011 19:29:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Henry Tsau http://www.htlounge.net/art/11026/acer-to-follow-apple%e2%80%99s-example-and-have-its-own-app-store-e-reader-possible.html/comment-page-1#comment-2126 Henry Tsau Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:37:18 +0000 http://www.htlounge.net/?p=11026#comment-2126 I have some advice for Acer. Forget old technology. Forget gray-scale screens. Forget Windows for tablets. The only way to make a tablet that can compete against the iPad, is to make it on an ARM processor, with a color screen, and using Google's Android OS. If any one of those three factors are changed, the unit will not succeed. They need the ARM processor for energy efficiency. They need to use Android because it's already popular, with lots of applications (Windows Mobile is unpopular, and app developers have abandoned it). Gray-scale screens should not even be considered. Nobody would make a black & white television. Modern screen technology (such as Pixel Qi) can combine color and ambient lighting for power efficiency. The single-purpose ebook reader is dead, and only multi-function devices (similar to iPad) will survive. I have some advice for Acer. Forget old technology. Forget gray-scale screens. Forget Windows for tablets.

The only way to make a tablet that can compete against the iPad, is to make it on an ARM processor, with a color screen, and using Google’s Android OS. If any one of those three factors are changed, the unit will not succeed.

They need the ARM processor for energy efficiency. They need to use Android because it’s already popular, with lots of applications (Windows Mobile is unpopular, and app developers have abandoned it). Gray-scale screens should not even be considered. Nobody would make a black & white television. Modern screen technology (such as Pixel Qi) can combine color and ambient lighting for power efficiency. The single-purpose ebook reader is dead, and only multi-function devices (similar to iPad) will survive.

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