PDAs based on Microsoft's Pocket PC operating system now account for 30% of the worldwide PDA market compared to 48.6% for PalmSource's market leading Palm OS, according to research released Monday by Dataquest, a unit of research company Gartner. Pocket PC-based handheld computing systems reached the 30% market share level in the third quarter of 2002, up from a 16.2% share in the third quarter last year, according to Dataquest figures.
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