Farewell, Gateway
"Gateway is gone," says Fortune's David Kirkpatrick in CNNMoney.com. And I'll miss it. Tech writers "once spent lots of time with Gateway and its personable, idiosyncratic founder Ted Waitt." But as rival Dell snared business customers, "Gateway never really escaped its roots as a consumer company"—which led Taiwan's Acer to buy it to get "traction as a U.S. consumer brand." As "a Taiwanese company passes a Chinese one" to become the No. 3 PC maker, the lesson is that the tech industry "has irrevocably become" global, and "the great era of U.S. dominance" has "finally come to an end."
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