Hands Down, Palm is Now Number Two

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."

Comments

Re:No offense . . .

[Harry8]

There's every chance it isn't.
This is a Gartner study, they have a reputation.
More formally, what is the error on their estimate? My bet is that it's plus or minus 5% gross thus they have found that Zaurus used to be somewhere in the range 0.0 - 6.9% now they think it's in the range 0.0 - 5.9%
Note how say a growth from 3% to 3.5% fits those numbers as well.
Yes I did pull the numbers out of my hat. But seriously we're geeks, where's the sample error? Are we just going to take Gartner's rediculous precision numbers as being accurate?
Not that I would accuse Gartner of pulling their numbers out of their hat on what 'sounds reasonable' and is likely to drum up business for them, oh no, I'm sure they're entirely honourable, aren't you...?

You've got to be kidding me...

[Surur]

You have got to be kidding. When was the last time you saw a TV or print advert for a pocketpc without a price attached. I still remember the Palm adverts with the couple on the two trains quite well. Didn't they have Claudia Schiffer in one of their campaigns. Palm also has enormous mindshare. Any handheld computer is still a Palm Pilot to the uninitiated.

I know you think MS is backing pocketpc's with billions, but remember they are part of the same devision as X-box, which is definitely making a loss. Also palm still has billions in the bank from their IPO during the dot-com boom.

I wish MS would take a larger interest in their creation, and do some more promoting. Instead they are all over the place, with separate implementations for media players and the x-box, when they could have made one integrated platform. Despite their lack of support the market has chosen, and it has chosen versatility and power over "simplicity" and "ease of use".

Surur