14 DAY TRIAL // It appears that recent rumors saying that Acer is getting back to normal and set to start seeing sales rise again were a bit premature, at least according to an even more recent report that shows revised tablet and notebook shipment targets.
Looking at what happened on the PC market this year, so far, one can easily see that things haven't been going as well as some may have hoped.
Whether because of tablets or not, shipments of both desktops and laptops have decreased, even though the recession seems to have gone away in some parts of the world.
Then again, the economy is still in a precarious state in Europe, this being one of the reasons invoked for how Acer revised downwards its sales estimate.
Just about a day ago, the outfit was reported to have performed well, on the retail channel at least, during the past quarter.
Acer even expected to be able to ship about 3 million notebooks to the retail channel during the ongoing month (June, 2011) alone.
Now, though, the prospects aren't so optimistic anymore, showing that the outfit has not yet fully recovered after all the trouble involving the CEO changes and everything else.
Still, a large part of the reason behind this downwards adjustment is attributed to the financial issues of the European region.
For those that want numbers, Acer expects to ship 2.5 to 3 million tablets by the end of the year, while the quarterly notebook sales (for the April-June period) will decrease by 10 percent compared to the ones in Q1).
Granted, this development isn't really disastrous, but it is still underwhelming for a company that hoped to reemerge after all the troubles of the first quarter.
What remains is to see if the future brings better news, now that new processors, like the AMD A-Series APUs, have been launched and should spawn new PC designs in short order.