Wednesday, October 16, 2002
Windows CE Device Sales Surge - From Psion?
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "THE COMPETITION" @ 04:00 AM
http://www.theregus.com/content/54/26590.html
Psion Teklogix has a new model in its netpad product line that was announced three months ago and has been shipping for one month. It is burning up the sales charts at the company already garnering 15% of the overall product line's sales. It is a rugged netpad powered by Windows CE.
This can't bode well for the Symbian OS. Psion Teklogix's own director of mobile computing estimates that the CE powered netpad will be 50% of the product line within 12 months. What's behind it? Just CE? Wireless? No. .NET. Many of the new customers are already porting their software to .NET. Microsoft looks to be in good position to take a substantial chunk of the embedded device market, and what is good for Windows CE is good for Pocket PC and visa versa. This is the leverage no other company has. Microsoft has Windows servers which will make use of .NET, which will make mobile computing easier for developers and safer for end users, which will increase the demand for .NET software and services, which will make mobile computing easier....well, you get the idea. :wink:
Psion Teklogix has a new model in its netpad product line that was announced three months ago and has been shipping for one month. It is burning up the sales charts at the company already garnering 15% of the overall product line's sales. It is a rugged netpad powered by Windows CE.
This can't bode well for the Symbian OS. Psion Teklogix's own director of mobile computing estimates that the CE powered netpad will be 50% of the product line within 12 months. What's behind it? Just CE? Wireless? No. .NET. Many of the new customers are already porting their software to .NET. Microsoft looks to be in good position to take a substantial chunk of the embedded device market, and what is good for Windows CE is good for Pocket PC and visa versa. This is the leverage no other company has. Microsoft has Windows servers which will make use of .NET, which will make mobile computing easier for developers and safer for end users, which will increase the demand for .NET software and services, which will make mobile computing easier....well, you get the idea. :wink:
