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Subject: Re: Will future PC appeal less to chess players because of attractive Palm?

Author: Torstein Hall

Date: 02:42:57 07/31/01

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On July 30, 2001 at 12:12:59, Christophe Theron wrote:

>On July 30, 2001 at 08:00:47, Torstein Hall wrote:
>
>>On July 30, 2001 at 00:15:15, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>
>>>On July 29, 2001 at 21:14:29, stuart taylor wrote:
>>>
>>>>I've just come back from London and America to Israel. I didn't get my palm on
>>>>my travels, yet, partly because I didn't find one which had ALL the benefits
>>>>together, and it looked like there is still alot more to be developed, and that
>>>>they are not running away, if I wait another 3-4 months.
>>>>
>>>>Is it good what they have in "Staples"? (In Manhattan etc). And how about psion?
>>>>S.Taylor
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Psion is dead. At least their handhelds are dead. The company has officially
>>>announced that it is stopping its handheld series.
>>>
>>>At this time there are only 2 serious competitors left:
>>>* The PalmOS computers (sold by several well known companies including 3com,
>>>Sony, Handspring, IBM and others). There must be between 15 and 20 millions
>>>PalmOS computers in the world.
>>>* The PocketPC computers (with a much smaller market share, but which will maybe
>>>grow in the future).
>>
>>In Europe Pocket PC are pretty close to the market share of Palm devices,
>>something like Palm 50% Pocket PC 40% Other 10% (Q1 2001)
>
>
>I think your numbers are about profit, not number of units sold. Compaq makes
>more money on every iPaq, but there are still much more Palm unit sold than
>iPaqs.
>
>Also, there has been a surge in iPaqs sales recently because Compaq has finally
>been able to deliver units that had been ordered before. This will not happen
>every quarter.
>
>
>    Christophe

I'm sorry but this is wrong. Take a look at this link and you will see that
Pocket PC and Palm is even closer. More like 43% Palm 41% Pocket PC etc.

http://www.internetnews.com/prod-news/article/0,,9_855431,00.html

In my view, people have started to relaze that a handheld device is more than a
glorified filofax and then they want more computing power in their device.

Torstein




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