[Design] Smartphone / handheld marketshare data from IDC

[Florin Iucha]

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On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 07:57:12PM -0500, Selva wrote:
> ".....Palm's operating system is the largest player in the field. The OS =
is used by more than 57 percent of the handheld users worldwide. As of Dece=
mber 2002, more than 25 million Palm Powered devices have been sold, over 2=
50,000 developers have created more than 15,000 applications.
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> PalmSource's market share has been holding the line, with recent reports =
showing Palm powered devices gaining ground in France (rising from 52 perce=
nt to 64 percent), and the U.K. (from 42 percent to 50 percent). The rise i=
s being attributed to PalmSource licensees releasing new products equipped =
with Palm OS 5, the latest version of the Palm operating system.
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> In the smartphone division, Palm's OS held an 89 percent share in the US =
during the third quarter of 2002. Analyst firm IDC's stats suggest that thr=
ee of the top six worldwide smart phone vendors' products were Palm Powered=
 -- Handspring and Treo 300; Kyocera's 5135 Palm Powered flip-phone; and Sa=
msung with its i330 smart phone. Other major players using Palm's smart pho=
ne include Alphasmart, with its Dana device and the Sony Clie NX 70v. ..."
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> http://www.internetnews.com/wireless/article.php/2100531
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> # Looks to me like if Chandler is to target smartphone market
> in the future, then Palm phones should be the first to
> be addressed and Symbian should be second since they have
> a slight lead over Palm in EU as I recall from a previous
> report.
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> IMO, addressing other smartphone platforms would not be
> worth the effort at this point.=20

Also don't bother with Linux since Windows has $BIGNUM % market share.
</irony>

florin

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