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"Acer, Asus and Dell are allegedly pulling out of the Android tablet market. Digitimes reports that the computing giants may withdraw from the sector because they are unable to compete with Apple, Amazon and Barnes &amp;amp; Noble. The Taiwanese news site cites sources from &amp;quot;upstream supply chains&amp;quot;, who claim that they would have received orders for parts by now if the manufacturers were planning to mass produce tablets for 2012. However, the report goes on to suggest that the tablet market as a whole may be in decline, noting that sales of Apple&amp;#039;s iPad 2 were lower than expected.  &amp;quot;The sources pointed out that although iPad 2 is also seeing strong demand from consumers, sales were lower than those of iPad, indicating that consumers&amp;#039; strong enthusiasm for tablet PCs has already disappeared,&amp;quot; said the website. Acer, Asus and Dell have not yet revealed plans to exit the tablet market. In fact, Asus previously said that it will release a quad-core tablet next year.  It has been speculated that all three firms could be waiting for the launch of the Windows 8 operating system before announcing their new tablet PCs. The new OS will feature a mobile version called Metro, backed by a dedicated apps store. Nokia confirmed earlier this week that it is developing a Windows 8-powered tablet for 2012. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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