Monday, August 18, 2003
Gartner Releases Q2 2003 Market Share Results
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "THE COMPETITION" @ 11:00 AM
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/68/32386.html
This is similar to the IDC report we discussed earlier this month, but Gartner has released some additional information. In device share, Palm, whoops, I mean pa1mOne (makes me want to type "pa1mOne, w00t l33t h4x0r5") is still on top, primarily because of their success with the $99 Zire. As you can see in Figure 1, devices running the Pocket PC OS now account for 35.9% of the PDA market. Note too that this is going to include almost none of the new Windows Mobile 2003 devices like the popular iPAQ 2215 and 1940 models.
Figure 1: Device Market Share
Figures 2 and 3 show, however, that the Pocket PC platform accounts for 47.7% of revenue, followed by PalmOS with 41%. Finally, Figure 4 recaps the IDC report with some tweaks that show some differences in how Gartner came up with their totals.
Figure 2: PDA Sales in Dollars
Figure 3: Dollar Market Share
Figure 4: Global PDA Unit Sales
This is similar to the IDC report we discussed earlier this month, but Gartner has released some additional information. In device share, Palm, whoops, I mean pa1mOne (makes me want to type "pa1mOne, w00t l33t h4x0r5") is still on top, primarily because of their success with the $99 Zire. As you can see in Figure 1, devices running the Pocket PC OS now account for 35.9% of the PDA market. Note too that this is going to include almost none of the new Windows Mobile 2003 devices like the popular iPAQ 2215 and 1940 models.
Figure 1: Device Market Share
Figures 2 and 3 show, however, that the Pocket PC platform accounts for 47.7% of revenue, followed by PalmOS with 41%. Finally, Figure 4 recaps the IDC report with some tweaks that show some differences in how Gartner came up with their totals.
Figure 2: PDA Sales in Dollars
Figure 3: Dollar Market Share
Figure 4: Global PDA Unit Sales
