Acer CEO Gianfranco Lanci said he thinks it will take his company two or three years to overtake the iPad and Apple’s early lead in the tablet market.

[ad#Google Adsense 300×250 in story]”While iPad has gained successful sales performance and good market response, Apple is centered around the US market with a significant leading status, but its competitive strength may not play out in emerging and other markets, this is the opportunity for Acer,” said Lanci. “Sales of iPad pushed forward very fast initially, but have slowed down in the past few weeks. … We hope our tablet PCs can reach a global market share of 10 percent to 20 percent initially, and become the market leader in 2-3 years.”

Considering the iPad is one of the best selling devices on the market today, I’d say Lanci has his work cut out for him.

In a seaparate interview with AllThingsD, Lanci said he believes a 7-inch tablet is good for the user. Acer announced an Android tablet to be released this year, but later delayed its plans until 2011.

Even though Acer doesn’t have a tablet in the market, Lanci already sees places where he can improve on the iPad.

“Apple for sure is influencing the market. I also believe that if I look at Apple, they influence the market on one side, but there is always room for improvement on the other side,” said Lanci. “Take iPad — when they came out it was without Flash and with certain limitations. With Android products we will fix that. Talking about screen resolution and even in terms of touch, view angles–there are a lot of things where you still have big room for differentiation or improvement compared to Apple.”