Friday, November 12, 2004
More On Microsoft's Lead In The Handheld Market
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "NEWS" @ 01:00 PM
http://news.com.com/Microsoft+grabs+lead+in+handheld+market/2100-1041_3-5450022.html?tag=prntfr
"Shipments of handhelds that use Microsoft's Windows CE operating system rose by about 33 percent to about 1.4 million in the third quarter, compared with the same period last year. Meanwhile, shipments of handhelds that use the Palm operating system shrank by 26 percent to 851,000. Research In Motion showed huge growth, with shipments jumping more than 356 percent to 565,000 to round out the top three, the research company said.
This is more details from the Gartner report that we discussed a few days ago. I've always heard after posts such as this that no matter what the results were, PalmOS still was number one. Not anymore, having fallen from a lofty 80%+ just 5 years ago to today's levels. Maybe this is why pa1mOne is considering other operating systems like Windows Mobile and Linux. PalmInfoCenter has even more details.
"Shipments of handhelds that use Microsoft's Windows CE operating system rose by about 33 percent to about 1.4 million in the third quarter, compared with the same period last year. Meanwhile, shipments of handhelds that use the Palm operating system shrank by 26 percent to 851,000. Research In Motion showed huge growth, with shipments jumping more than 356 percent to 565,000 to round out the top three, the research company said.
This is more details from the Gartner report that we discussed a few days ago. I've always heard after posts such as this that no matter what the results were, PalmOS still was number one. Not anymore, having fallen from a lofty 80%+ just 5 years ago to today's levels. Maybe this is why pa1mOne is considering other operating systems like Windows Mobile and Linux. PalmInfoCenter has even more details.
