Monday, February 7th, 2005, 3:01 am
PDA Shipments Drop for Third Year
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Albert Nurick from comp.sys.palmtops writes:
In an article with a slightly 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/
Cited by: PalmAddict
