News - Acer founder reckons US PC brands could disappear

[HEXUS]

Stan Shih reportedly thinks US PC makers lack the ability to make PCs cheaply enough.

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[Powderhound]

...still manages to get consumers to pay top dollar for its PCs. It's called Apple...

Are you sure about that?

[aeonf242]

Apple is a US company with a load of cheap factories in China :-)
Designed in California, made in China

[kingpotnoodle]

Apple is a US company with a load of cheap factories in China :-)
Designed in California, made in China

Made at Chinese costs, sold at Californian prices... can't lose can they.

And an Apple Mac is a PC - it's the same basic components these days, it's a definitely "Personal Computer", the only differences between them and your average Dell/HP clone box are some case form factors, EFI instead of BIOS (probably not a difference for much longer) and from the factory it runs a BSD derivative with a shiny UI instead of Windows. Back in the day when they used Motorola or PowerPC processors there was more difference, but now Macs are just Intel same as everyone else.

[oolon]

Let me get this straight, so a manufacturer in one country states that manufacturer's in another company will fail. This is news? Sounds to me like something any chief exec might say.

[latrosicarius]

Description should read "Stan Shih reportedly thinks US PC makers lack the ability to neglect basic human rights and essentially use slave labor to produce cheap products with little or no quality control."

I also think Stan Shih underestimates how easy it is to confuddle Americans into spending more money for the same product with just a little marketing and some "made in the U.S.A." stickers.