John Paczkowski

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Acer Gets New President, Tablet Division

Acer’s finally named a replacement for Gianfranco Lanci, who resigned last month after fumbling the company’s tablet strategy. Jim Wong, who previously led Acer’s global IT operations, will succeed Lanci as corporate president, the company said this morning. His first order of business: creating a new tablet and smartphone division separate from Acer’s notebook unit.


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The best and brightest are usually put to work on optimisation. … They will then go forward and solve the inefficiencies, and that’s where 99% of most energy is spent on. But, at some point you run out of room to improve things, and that’s when you have to step aside and ask, can we make it different?

— Horace Dediu, in a podcast interview with William Channer