Tuesday, July 23, 2002
Handheld shipments slide in Q2, 2002 in Europe
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "NEWS" @ 05:30 AM
http://www.forbes.com/technology/newswire/2002/07/23/rtr670957.html
Quarterly numbers usually come out of Western Europe first and those for the second quarter of 2002 have just been published. There is not a lot of movement either. Palm and HP (the iPAQ) are still the top two players and maintained their market share. Total sales for the quarter were 463,000 units and analysts at Gartner "Still forecasts 2.3 million units to be shipped this year, up from 2.1 million, but only if Palm and Microsoft manage to roll out successful new products in the fourth quarter."
Ok, I know about the new Palm - the much anticipated OS5 devices, like the new Oslo. What new Microsoft product is she expecting? This one?
And I loved this quote. "The new processors and Palm operating software, which is developed and sold by a separate unit from the hardware division and which will be spun off next month, will bring most of the software applications to Palm-based devices that are now only available on Microsoft-based devices." Uhm... excuse me Ms. Analyst. Just because PalmOS devices will use ARM chips does not mean they can run any app compiled for ARM.
Quarterly numbers usually come out of Western Europe first and those for the second quarter of 2002 have just been published. There is not a lot of movement either. Palm and HP (the iPAQ) are still the top two players and maintained their market share. Total sales for the quarter were 463,000 units and analysts at Gartner "Still forecasts 2.3 million units to be shipped this year, up from 2.1 million, but only if Palm and Microsoft manage to roll out successful new products in the fourth quarter."
Ok, I know about the new Palm - the much anticipated OS5 devices, like the new Oslo. What new Microsoft product is she expecting? This one?
And I loved this quote. "The new processors and Palm operating software, which is developed and sold by a separate unit from the hardware division and which will be spun off next month, will bring most of the software applications to Palm-based devices that are now only available on Microsoft-based devices." Uhm... excuse me Ms. Analyst. Just because PalmOS devices will use ARM chips does not mean they can run any app compiled for ARM.
