Acer's forcefully ousted former CEO Gianfranco Lanci used an interview on Monday to defend himself and also issue a warning to those competing with the iPad. He claimed to have recognized the importance of focusing on phones and tablets but to have been hindered by nationalist sentiment at his company. While he wanted to roughly triple the engineer head count to 1,000 to focus on tighter hardware and software integration, the Taiwanese establishment was allegedly worried about "de-Taiwanization," AllThingsD heard, and fired Lanci rather than accept that it needed ou
