Albert Nurick wrote:
> In an article with a slighly inaccurate headline, MSNBC carries the AP
> story about declining PDA sales.
>
> Reading the story reveals some interesting details.
>
> palmOne's shipments are down 9% to 3.7 million, from 4 million in 2003.
>
> Sony's dropped to 419,000 from 1.4 million. (Sony pulled out of the US
> market)
>
> A very interesting note at the bottom:
>
> "Shipments from other leading PDA makers, such as Hewlett-Packard Co.,
> Dell Inc. and Medion AG, increased, but not enough to offset the overall
> market's downward spiral.
>
> "Those three companies all make PDAs that run Microsoft operating
> systems."
>
> So it appears that PalmOS sales are down, and Pocket PC sales are up;
> that wouldn't have been as good of a headline, though.
>
> Read it all:
>
> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6906812/
Albert,
I referred to your words (see below) and I hope you don't mind.
http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/index.php?p=96
Roy
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