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Palm/Handspring Combination Makes For Tough Microsoft Competitor | |
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| Time: 00:00 EST/05:00 GMT | News Source: CRN | Posted By: Todd Richardson | ||
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A combined Palm and Handspring presents a powerful opponent against Microsoft in the continued battle over mobile computing market share, industry observers said Wednesday. As growth of new handheld sales and solutions continues to stagnate, the Palm-Handspring alliance offers both companies an opportunity to streamline operations and at the same time combine Palm's market-leading PDAs with Handsprings popular Treo Communicator format, analysts and solution providers said. | ||
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| #1 By 3653 (209.149.57.116) at 6/4/2003 11:56:07 PM |
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"tough competitor"? LOL.
Palm has effectively cut its own throat with this move. No handset makers (Nokia, etc) will want to license the PalmOS... now that Palm is a DIRECT competitor. Whereas with Microsoft... who will supply any and all handset providers with Smartphone's OS. Haven't we been down this path about a hundred times? And every single time, Microsoft's partnership-oriented model wins. Things dont change, because the competition continues to make the exact same mistakes. |
| #2 By 2960 (156.80.64.196) at 6/5/2003 1:05:03 PM |
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I've owned three PocketPC's in the last 2 years, and to be honest the PocketPC 2002 Operating System does not impress me.
The list is long and finicky, but application management is near the top for me. I'm not crazy about Palm either, but the MM features have definitely improved recently, and the Palm platform is truly more efficient with resources as best I can tell. My next one will be a Sony running the latest Palm OS. TL |
| #3 By 1190 (4.34.137.29) at 6/5/2003 1:50:41 PM |
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Mooresa56, Palm's hardware and Operating system divisions are going to split off as separate independent companies later this month. The OS company is named PalmSource and will have NOTHING to do with the hardware company. In fact, the hardware group has to license the the PalmOS just like Sony does.
So this will NOT put PalmSource in direct competition with Nokia. |
| #4 By 3653 (209.149.57.116) at 6/5/2003 7:37:46 PM |
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Foo_Fighter - I disagree. Nokia, etc own Symbian... and PalmSource will very much compete with Symbian in the handset space. And Palm's hardware division will also compete with these same handset makers.
chozsun, you are correct that Palm leads in "units sold". However, the real question is which Operating System has the largest market share. And that is PocketPC, not Palm. They passed them last year. Here's the first article that popped up via google... http://www.palmpower.com/issues/issue200211/gartner001.html I would also add that HP is the revenue leader, ahead of Palm. They passed Palm sometime last year. |
| #5 By 3339 (65.198.47.10) at 6/5/2003 8:23:06 PM |
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Um, mooresa, according to your own link, Palm is still in the lead:
"For the first time, Microsoft licensees captured more than 30 percent of worldwide PDA shipments, up from 16.2 percent in the third quarter of 2001. Palm and Sony, along with Handspring and a few other Palm OS licensees comprised approximately 48.6 percent of worldwide PDA shipments in the third quarter of 2002, the same as the third quarter last year." As of, 3Q 2002... And as of today as far as I can determine. And your reply to Foo makes no sense--yes, there is a tighter alliance between Nokia and Symbian than Palm hardware and PalmSource, so what? Is this hurting Nokia? Is this hurting Symbian? Of course, PalmSource competes with Symbian--and the Treo/Palm hardware competes with Nokia, et al (let's note: we are talking about a couple or so models (of hybrid Palms) versus many, many models of handsets). So wheres the inhibiting element to this equation? |
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