http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/14/windows-mobile-passes-palm-in-pda-sales/ Engadget Comments for Windows Mobile passes Palm in PDA sales http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/14/windows-mobile-passes-palm-in-pda-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/14/windows-mobile-passes-palm-in-pda-sales/Dec 19th 2005 12:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/11/14/windows-mobile-passes-palm-in-pda-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/14/windows-mobile-passes-palm-in-pda-sales/Dec 19th 2005 12:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/11/14/windows-mobile-passes-palm-in-pda-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/14/windows-mobile-passes-palm-in-pda-sales/Dec 19th 2005 12:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/11/14/windows-mobile-passes-palm-in-pda-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/14/windows-mobile-passes-palm-in-pda-sales/
Looks like the plan is to let their regular PDA's die a slow death and just focus on Smartphones like the Treo...just like Jeff Hawkins wanted to do with Handspring. And I guess Palm no longer wants to be the all around platform it once wanted to be. Seems to me that they're banking their future on portable productivity with Treo. Portable gaming will go to Sony PSP or Nintendo. Portable multimedia will go to iPod and the like.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/11/14/windows-mobile-passes-palm-in-pda-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/14/windows-mobile-passes-palm-in-pda-sales/
As for the survey counting how many people replace their PPC OS with a linx distro - IM quicte sure thats a miniscule percetage.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/11/14/windows-mobile-passes-palm-in-pda-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/14/windows-mobile-passes-palm-in-pda-sales/
They've had some that were interesting, but they've also had a lot of problems: Bad sound, the slider, problems with the sync ports, general fragileness and bulk.

The lack of universal driver support for their WIFI cards, along with the fact that the cards got to market two years late is also really hurting them.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/11/14/windows-mobile-passes-palm-in-pda-sales/http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/14/windows-mobile-passes-palm-in-pda-sales/
Regardless of who installs what on what device, the sales of the actual devices supporting the actual OS's are what is triggering the numbers. Last I checked, most PPC devices that originally offered Linux as an alternative were being pulled. Even in the real world, Linux is only making up like 1% of all sales.

Also realize that Palm has even stepped away from its own, successful OS, only to mimic PPC 2002 and 2003. Even if Palm OS doesn't go away, in 5 years you won't be able to tell the difference between the two.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:06AM