Ed Colligan recently repeated his announcement to discontinue handheld sales due to lack of interest and “future perspective”. As his statement did not include and tangible numbers, we from Resco s.r.o. are glad to fill up the void for you with the following numbers.
Surprisingly, handheld users bought more software over the last 30 days:
When breaking it down on a per-device perspective, the following “market shares” can be computed:
From our point of view, the discontinuation of new handhelds is a very bad move which will hurt the already struggling Palm OS economy significantly. We cannot see why other manufacturers like HP are highly successful selling their non-smartphone devices, while Palm struggles!
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i have same experience from company i am working for. we are dropping palmos support for our application because since palm does only smartphones there is no interest for it from our customers. even old ones which used palmos devices switch to windows mobile because its always more difficult to replace broken devices with new ones. palm made very wrong decision from my point of view
This will put the nail in the coffin for the Palm OS. Our office just went HP windows mobile vice from our former Palm T/X due to non-support for new applications. We are a very large company that basically used Palm since 1999. Too bad as I still own the Tungsten C personally and enjoy it.
It is lamentable. But it seems Palm has decided long ago that they don’t want their PDA-only customers, let’em get an HP pda if they want a pda. They are aiming to phone users.
With this is mind, I don’t expect much from Nova… it’s gonna be a lot of eye candy and facebook stuff for teens..
i think palm inc. make a wrong decision .
palm TX is the best PDA i have ever use
why don’t u continue it and add some feathers like…
1. phone function
2. slide QWERTY keyboard
3. better web browser (blazer is suck)
Hi folks,
my words!
All the best
Tam Hanna