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Mike Temporale
05-07-2004, 02:15 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=2771' target='_blank'>http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=2771</a><br /><br /></div>In case any of you have yet to hear, PalmOne has said that their hardware could <a href="http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/002657.html">run Windows Mobile.</a> This is not the first time this has been made public. I remember hearing something about this about a year ago. So with that in mind, take a look at the article GeekZone has just published.<br /><br />"The rumour mill is suggesting that Dell may buy Palm One. What changes would happen to the market if this really happen? Time for some speculation from our point of view. If Dell did buy palmOne, the question would be - would they continue to license Palm OS or stick to Microsoft? I suspect that Microsoft would be offering Dell incentives to stay with them; incentives that palmSource can’t match. Now if Dell did buy palmOne and they switched them from Palm OS to Windows Mobile, the industry would be turned upside down. Microsoft market share would go from 40.2% to 80.9% (assuming hardware sales are constant). Dell would have 43.1% market share, and HP would have 25.7%. PalmSource would then have Sony's 9.3% market share and not much more. I can’t see them surviving on that."<br /><br />Personally, I don't think this is Dell's style. However if they did decide to buy PalmOne, I have serious doubts that they SEC (or is it the FTC?) would allow this to happen.

possmann
05-07-2004, 02:26 PM
It is an interesting rumor, but I agree with you - I don't see this in Dell's style of operating...