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    Palm's Market Share Goes Up, Handspring's Goes DownPosted By: Ed on Friday, September 29, 2000 8:11:41 AM
During August, Palm had 70.3% of the PDA market, an almost 10% increase over the previous month. During that same time, Handspring lost over 11% of its market share, dropping from 26.1% to 15.5%. This is the first month since the introduction of the Visor that Handspring has lost market share. Palm's big increase was caused by a surge of sales of the new m100. Sales of the iPAQ brought COMPAQ all the way up to 6.6% of the market from 3.6% in July. Total sales of PocketPCs accounted for only 9.7% of the PDA market, up from 8.3%. These figures were released by the reasearch firm NPD INTELECT.
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2 total comments The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. PIC is not responsible for them in any way. login or register for free in order to post comments.  Wait, just wait!Eddie Willers @ 9/29/2000 2:16:07 PM #
This drop may be do to the leaked info on a mid- October release of two new Visor products, one being the 16-bit color Prism. I person- ally have been disappionted with the lack of new products for my IIIc, and I am considering a Prism already, because of the wireless capabilities both with the Visorphone & the wireless modems that are available, and are not even yet rumored to be on the way for my IIIc. So if anyone would like a IIIc, I will include in the package, the PalmPix Camera, Palm Navagator, Silkyboard keyboard overlays, & a two year Extended Service Plan with Staples, all for $400. If you would prefer, since it is still under the Palm warranty, I can also exchange it for a new one. Serious inquiries only; eddiewillers@mail.com
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