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Handheld market free fall continues | |
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| Time: 12:57 EST/17:57 GMT | News Source: CNET | Posted By: Chris Hedlund | ||
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The global handheld market continued to slide in 2004, with shipments slipping to below 10 million for the first time since 1999, according to a new IDC report. For the fourth successive quarter in 2004, sales declined on a year-over-year basis to 2.8 million units, the market researcher said. For the full year, the figure was 9.2 million units, compared to 10.6 million units in 2003. This is the third successive year of decline since the market's peak in 2001, IDC said. "Despite a rise in quarterly shipments due to holiday seasonality and consumer uptake of bundled and integrated GPS receivers, increasingly saturated markets and stiff competition from converged mobile devices drove the handheld device market to its third straight year of decline," analyst David Linsalata said in a release. "This drop stresses the urgent need for vendors to evolve their devices beyond personal information management in order to return the market to a growth path." | ||
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| #1 By 2960 (156.80.64.60) at 2/2/2005 1:10:07 PM |
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The answer is simple and two-fold.
First, they are too damned expensive for what you get. Second, I think today's Cell Phones are providing most of the PDA features people need. And let's not forget the BlackBerries :) |
| #2 By 2960 (156.80.64.60) at 2/2/2005 1:11:11 PM |
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The answer is simple and two-fold.
First, they are too damned expensive for what you get. Second, I think today's Cell Phones are providing most of the PDA features people need. And let's not forget the BlackBerries :) |
| #3 By 23603 (205.205.16.106) at 2/2/2005 1:22:01 PM |
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Yeah...Blackberry just kiss ass
I work on the road and this device has save me so much time..... |
| #4 By 28692 (66.238.89.254) at 2/2/2005 2:24:02 PM |
| Even bigger problem with PDA is that many realized they don't need it. Many who purchased PDA during the "Palm craze" swore off on PDA entirely (many collecting dust after few months of use). With even the most basic cell phones providing "good enough" PIM functionalities (address book, calendar) and digital music players such as iPod offering the same, and availability of cheaper and smaller notebooks, there's no future for PDAs (just smartphones such as Treo 650). |
| #5 By 20505 (216.102.144.11) at 2/2/2005 9:51:23 PM |
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the pda is dead.
long live the pda (in the form of the treo) ;) |
| #6 By 2960 (156.80.64.60) at 2/3/2005 1:50:44 PM |
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#4 is right too. Been there, done that. Twice.
TL |
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