Acer Company expects that in from 15% to 25% of the total sales of Acer notebooks will be netbook. Make plans this year to sell up to 15mln from 12mln netbook and believes that demand will remain at least as large as possible, even increase, as in many countries netbook will be sold to telecom operators.
Analysts expect the company IDC, increasing market netbook 20%, that is, until 26.4mln units, which means that the company Acer has all the chances on the results of this year to become the largest producer of netbook, perhaps even with the share of more than 50%. As a leader in the segment netbook, Acer is also rapidly gaining a segment of thin and light notebooks with models Timeline series and TravelMate.
Chairman of the company Acer said that the company was not concerned about the possible yield to market Nokia netbook. He noted that competition for orders of telecommunications provider’s netbook manufacturers will have some advantages. According to Wang, in spite of the fact that the producers netbook still unable to compete with manufacturers of mobile phones for long-term partnership with providers of telecommunications services, but since netbook provide an opportunity to switch to the use of 3G services during the year partnership agreements with manufacturers netbook providers will achieve the same popularity as the provider agreement with the manufacturers of phones.
Another advantage of producer’s netbook is their low costs of its component parts, according to Wang, from this point of view of phone manufacturers are unable to compete with producer’s netbook. Acer welcomes the emergence of new competitors, because, according to Wang, this will expand the market.
Currently, Acer is the second largest producer of laptops, taking in the market 19.7%. Now in the first place is HP with 22.1% share. If, however, Acer will continue to grow, then the next year it could overtake HP.



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