Sharp Plans To Pull Zaurus From U.S. Market

Posted by timothy on Monday October 18, 2004 @10:32AM 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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WARNING: THIS POST IS OFFTOPIC by Babbster · 2004-10-18 11:09 · 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)