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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