Danny Stewart

Look, I know Apple didn’t invent cloud services. I’m not stupid. But this cloning thing is just crazy. What does Acer hope to achieve with this, bar some short-term press and also quite a bit of ridicule? Unlike Apple, it cannot back iCloud with a content ecosystem. More to the point, it’s offering nothing new, something shared by the vast majority of companies in tech.

This problem is endemic among Apple’s “competitors” these days. The distinguishing factor is, as Craig rightly points out, iteration—the ability to take an idea or a product that already exists and is not new, and to refine that into a quality product the likes of which has not yet been made available.

Every day I lose a little bit more hope that someone other than Apple will even try this.