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Hands Down, Palm is Now Number Two

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the getting-a-handle dept.

jamesl writes "InformationWeek reports that the number one PDA operating system now comes from Redmond, 48.1% last quarter (41.2% a year ago) compared to 29.8% (46.9% last year) for PalmSource. The big gainer was RIM, up to 19.8% from 4.9%. Linux ... a valient 0.9%, off slightly from last years' 1.9%. The article has some thoughts about where the market is going with phones taking on more PDA functions."

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  1. Convergence by FiReaNGeL · · Score: 5, Interesting

    With dirt-cheap-to-make phones taking over the (simple) functions of PDAs, I can't see the market for pure PDAs improving much. Honestly, I always found a 400$ device too costly to replace my paper address/notebook. But its a different thing altogether if they can offer me the functionality on my phone, for just about the same price.

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  2. Re:Gartner's numbers are always suspect by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Gartner is completely full of crap. I'm posting anonymously now because my current company's product is climbing up Gartner's recommendation list. We're doing it by rimming Ronnie Colville basically, and in return we get the joy-love treatment from Gartner and in turn the press. We start doing well on the magic quadrant, next thing you know we're getting in depth magazine lab reviews that praise us for features we don't actually have.

    On the flip side, a few years back I worked for a company that was on Gartner's shit list. There we were regulary beaten up on the magic quadrant for not having technology that we'd INVENTED and brought to market first. Hello?

    Making decisions based on Gartner's recommendations is about as smart as using a dartboard.