When Lee got back, the outsider, Leonard Liu, was on his way out at Acer, and Lee became president at his former Acer unit, then called Acer Peripherals.
While rivals merely talked, he got his Acer unit into the business of making large liquid-crystal-display panels through a subsidiary, Acer Display Technologies.
Simon Lin, chief executive officer of the group's flagship Acer Inc. unit, will stay as the Acer Group's other president.
While Gartner's estimates show Apple inching ahead of Acer, with 1,397,000 units shipping during the second quarter to Acer's 1,331,000 units; IDC's pegs Apple at only 1,329,000 units to Acer's 1,331,000.
This is the latest in a string of hardware investments made by Foxconn, whose manufacturing clients include Apple, Microsoft and Acer, or its units.
Mrs. Jackson, 37, is a public relations manager at the North American unit of Acer, a Taiwan-based computer manufacturer.
Some rights reserved A surge in demand for the latest smartphones has taken the industry by surprise and left it facing a shortage in the key end-of-year holiday sales season, a chief of Acer's mobile phone unit told Reuters.
"Our partner received notification from Google that if the new product with Aliyun went ahead, Google would terminate Android product cooperation and related technical authorisation with Acer," Alibaba's Cloud Computing unit said in a statement.
Dell trails behind with an 11.8percentt share after shipping 6.7 million units, while Acer rounds out the top three also holding an 11.8percentt share and shipping 6.6 million units.
It's believed that the 8.9-inch models will make up the other five million-plus units that Acer's planning to ship.
One day he spotted an Acer promotion, which lowered the unit cost to $450.
