Palm Rocks With Latest Report – Market Share Up To 13.4%
Posted in Random by Dan at 2:28 pm
This post was published 1 year 5 months 21 days ago and its content may not be valid anymore.I know there are Palm haters out there, but the Palm brand (and OS) are far from dead. Word dropped on my desk that Palm has, may I say, as surprising Q1.
A study from IDC, indicates an increase for Palm handhelds from 7.9% in the previous quarter (Q407) to 13.4% in Q108. It is also worth noting that on March 31, Palm announced the sale of its one millionth Centro showing a strong interest in the platform.
By no means am I a stock analyst nor pretend to be one on TV but for an industry that seems to be dominated by RIM and (now) Apple Palm made a VERY strong showing and I am proud of my tried tested and true company.
I love my Treo 680 and I had a palm pilot 5000 back in 96.
The instant on was fabulous. The all features in one package was the ultimate goal and Palm did it first.
True that they lost a huge lead to Apple and Blackberry but this post is encouraging. The mass market is not stupid after all!
I bought my Palm T|X just a couple of years ago, after debating for a long time which platform to spend my hard earned $$ on. What decided me was not only price (it cost less than the equivalent PocketPC), but that it had a mature operating system and oodles an oodles of applications that had been around for a long time. To my mind that meant there weren’t likely to be ugly surprises yet to be discovered with it. It can do almost everything that a Blackberry or iPhone can except make phone calls. This last thing doesn’t bother me the least, since I prefer my phone to just be a phone. I’ve never regretted my purchase, and have never not once eyed up a Blackberry or an iPhone and considered dumping my Palm. The Palm OS may not be very slick looking, but it functions perfectly for me.