[Pony99CA]

Originally Posted by Janak Parekh

Not entirely true. PalmSource has the phone licensees (Samsung, Kyocera), there's Garmin, the gaming one, and a bunch of other more specialty licenses. Having said that, yes, I'm not sure that this consolidation will help grow the market either.

Yes, I pointed this out in another forum, too, but you beat me to it here (what a shock :lol. Granted, Kyocera, Samsung, Garmin, et al don't have the market share of Palm and Sony, but should they not be counted?

Here's a story on Reuter's about this.

Steve

[Pony99CA]

Originally Posted by Janak Parekh

Not entirely true. PalmSource has the phone licensees (Samsung, Kyocera), there's Garmin, the gaming one, and a bunch of other more specialty licenses. Having said that, yes, I'm not sure that this consolidation will help grow the market either.

Yes, I pointed this out in another forum, too, but you beat me to it here (what a shock :lol. Granted, Kyocera, Samsung, Garmin, et al don't have the market share of Palm and Sony, but should they not be counted?

Here's a story on Reuter's about this.

Steve

[Ed Hansberry]

Originally Posted by Pony99CA

Yes, I pointed this out in another forum, too, but you beat me to it here (what a shock :lol. Granted, Kyocera, Samsung, Garmin, et al don't have the market share of Palm and Sony, but should they not be counted?

Too small IMHO. THose companies don't appear on any marketshare reports. Anyone being crammed down into the "other" line just isn't a significant player.

There are 2 significant Palm players - Palm and Sony.

[Pony99CA]

Originally Posted by Ed Hansberry

There are 2 significant Palm players - Palm and Sony.

I'll agree with that, but that's not what you said in the story (or what Jason said).

Originally Posted by Ed Hansberry

This will leave two PalmOS vendors in the consumer/business market, Palm and Sony.

Say what you mean, mean what you say; you know how many nitpickers there are here. :-)

Steve

[reidme]

I find it amusing that this PPC forum often discusses Palm news (and tries to put a negative spin on it.) You don't see Palm forums obsessing about PPCs.

[Foo Fighter]

Originally Posted by Jason Dunn

What I find interesting is that there's now only two companies making Palm OS PDAs: Palm and Sony. Granted, both are big and doing well, but I wonder if through the sheer number of OEMs the Pocket PC has, ground won't continue to be made?

I had a similar thought. The now limited choice among PalmOS vendors could hurt PalmOS adoption in the corporate space. This may be a feather in the cap for Pocket PC, especially when you have Dell playing the scene...and they are strongly entrenched in the hearts and minds of IT departments the world over.

[Foo Fighter]

I think the biggest mistake to come out of this merger was naming Jeff Hawkins CTO. He'll run the hardware group into the ground in no time.

Prepare for a new wave of sucktacular and boring products from Palm SG. :roll:

[Ed Hansberry]

Originally Posted by reidme

I find it amusing that this PPC forum often discusses Palm news (and tries to put a negative spin on it.) You don't see Palm forums obsessing about PPCs.

That's 'cause we aren't a boring news site. We look at the competition and have our "daily news, views, rants and raves."

[reidme]

Originally Posted by Ed Hansberry

That's 'cause we aren't a boring news site. We look at the competition and have our "daily news, views, rants and raves."

Definitely not boring, thats why I read it every day. And I certainly don't mind being amused!

[Jason Dunn]

Originally Posted by Pony99CA

Granted, Kyocera, Samsung, Garmin, et al don't have the market share of Palm and Sony, but should they not be counted?

I forgot. I'm sorry.

[huangzhinong]

Originally Posted by Ed Hansberry

That's 'cause we aren't a boring news site. We look at the competition and have our "daily news, views, rants and raves."

Another reason is most PPC users used to be palm users. PPC users know palm very well but a lot of palm users have no idea how PPC works.