Acer, Asus and Dell 'to exit Android tablets'

Website quotes suppliers saying PC makers are pulling back from Android tablet market. Are they just waiting for Windows 8?. PC hardware vendors such as Acer, Asustek and Dell may withdraw from the tablet market next year because they cannot compete with Apple, Amazon and Barnes & Noble, suggests the Taiwanese news site Digitimes. The report – which is based only on "sources from upstream supply chains", who would expect to be seeing orders from those companies by now if they were planning an aggressive push into tablets in 2012 – suggests that the PC vendors cannot see any profit in tablets because they do not have a compelling content offering like the existing trio.