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The real story in these stats is not whether PalmOS or Windows whatever-the-latest-name-is has a higher market share. It's about which companies are winning and which losing. Winners: Palm, Sony, HP. Losers: everyone else!

How many PPC makers are there out there right now? Ten? more? If ten, then ten of them have to share 186 000 (IIRC) in sales. That's an average of less than 20 000 per manufacturer. Not much to compensate for the investment in tooling up, manufacturing, marketing, distributing, selling and supporting. No wonder Toshiba won't upgrade its older units; they can't afford to.

Basically, if you bought a unit from other than Palm, Sony, HP, you can forget about support in the future. And right now HP must have its hands full, since basic PDA functions like alarms don't work on its brand new 2215. The oldest Palm 1000 was more reliable.

cheers
Stewart in Calgary

[midtoad]

The real story in these stats is not whether PalmOS or Windows whatever-the-latest-name-is has a higher market share. It's about which companies are winning and which losing. Winners: Palm, Sony, HP. Losers: everyone else!

How many PPC makers are there out there right now? Ten? more? If ten, then ten of them have to share 186 000 (IIRC) in sales. That's an average of less than 20 000 per manufacturer. Not much to compensate for the investment in tooling up, manufacturing, marketing, distributing, selling and supporting. No wonder Toshiba won't upgrade its older units; they can't afford to.

Basically, if you bought a unit from other than Palm, Sony, HP, you can forget about support in the future. And right now HP must have its hands full, since basic PDA functions like alarms don't work on its brand new 2215. The oldest Palm 1000 was more reliable.

cheers
Stewart in Calgary