Monday, August 5, 2002
More PDA market share numbers
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "NEWS" @ 11:00 AM
http://news.com.com/2100-1040-948358.html?tag=fd_top
The numbers aren't terribly different from what we reported here a few weeks ago. The overall market declined but Pocket PCs were able to increase market share and even overall units shipped. The net result is Palm OS has 50% of the worldwide market and Pocket PC has 28%. The rest of the market is either Symbian, Windows CE, Linux or some other minor player in the PDA space.
This report has some year over year comparisons whereas the report mentioned above were versus the previous quarter. Palm dropped 9%. Recall that Palm had a particularly bad 2nd quarter in 2001 as the M500 series were late and there were Palm Vxs laying around that people didn't want. HP dropped 31%, but this was against a particularly strong 2nd quarter showing in 2001 as Compaq finally was able to ship a huge backlog of orders once they got production of the iPAQ ramped up. Dataquest also attributed some of the decline to people holding off until X-Scale devices ship in the third quarter. Third place Sony jumped 348%. Last year they really only had the 760 series. This year they have quite a few devices to choose from including the popular NR70 line. Fourth place Handspring dropped 30% and fifth place Toshiba didn't even exist in last year.
In terms of dollars, HP is number one, shipping $220 million in product versus Palm's $217 million. Again, this is due to the higher price of the Pocket PC devices versus Palm's average selling price. Source: Foo Fighter
The numbers aren't terribly different from what we reported here a few weeks ago. The overall market declined but Pocket PCs were able to increase market share and even overall units shipped. The net result is Palm OS has 50% of the worldwide market and Pocket PC has 28%. The rest of the market is either Symbian, Windows CE, Linux or some other minor player in the PDA space.
This report has some year over year comparisons whereas the report mentioned above were versus the previous quarter. Palm dropped 9%. Recall that Palm had a particularly bad 2nd quarter in 2001 as the M500 series were late and there were Palm Vxs laying around that people didn't want. HP dropped 31%, but this was against a particularly strong 2nd quarter showing in 2001 as Compaq finally was able to ship a huge backlog of orders once they got production of the iPAQ ramped up. Dataquest also attributed some of the decline to people holding off until X-Scale devices ship in the third quarter. Third place Sony jumped 348%. Last year they really only had the 760 series. This year they have quite a few devices to choose from including the popular NR70 line. Fourth place Handspring dropped 30% and fifth place Toshiba didn't even exist in last year.
In terms of dollars, HP is number one, shipping $220 million in product versus Palm's $217 million. Again, this is due to the higher price of the Pocket PC devices versus Palm's average selling price. Source: Foo Fighter
