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Sharp Plans To Pull Zaurus From U.S. Market

Posted by timothy on from the darn-shame dept.

Eugenia writes "Facing stiff competition and low sales, a Sharp representative has informed InfoSyncWorld that the company has decided to fully withdraw its Zaurus SL line of Linux-based handhelds from the U.S. market and focus on its home market in Japan. The recent similar withdraws of Sony and Toshiba pretty much left PalmOne and RIM fighting alone HP and Dell in a saturated PDA market inundated with U.S. brands. People don't seem to be willing to pay a premium for gadgets and alternative systems, and primarily in the corporate market customers prefer to buy from the same suppliers as for their corporate hardware."

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  1. Related question for blackberry developers by pavon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Now that Qutopia is likely out of the market, and RIM is now attempting to compete directly with the other PDA developers, we are left with PalmOS, PocketPC, and the blackberry OS as the main PDA operating environments. Which leads me to ask:

    What is development like on the blackberry, compared to PalmOS? How nice are the APIs and documentation. How open are they in terms of licencing of the OS and viewing code to base applications? What choices of development environments are there? Is there as vibrant of a developer community surrounding it as with the other platforms. I know some of these questions could be answered by RTFWWW, but it would be nice to hear about experiences that developers have had with the platform.

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  3. WARNING: THIS POST IS OFFTOPIC by Babbster · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Someone does seem a little quick on the -1 trigger. I posted two comments which I thought were vaguely amusing (here and in the solar minimum post), took off my karma bonus (because of the lack of content), and both were pounded down to zero. It's probably my fault - my sense of humor is pretty dry and often a little too mean...and maybe even not very funny. :)

    (Yes, I know this will be modded offtopic - I can probably handle the hit)