Dell could swing PDA to Pocket PCs
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on October 29, 2002 at 3:32:31 PM
I have as much doubt as the rest of you. Palm has a strong hold of the PDA market and Dell can't easily chip away all of it.
Wow, I really wouldn't expect the owner of the company to say that their products are good and will do good in the market (sarcasm).
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Gartner Dataquest, a division of Stamford, Connecticut-based Gartner Inc, believes that Dell's avowedly low-cost approach to computing will put increased pressure on smaller players and help swing the PDA market towards Pocket PC-powered devices rather than the currently numerically dominant Palm OS.
Dataquest's opinion was backed up by Michael Dell himself. The Dell CEO told a news conference in Tokyo yesterday that his company would be launching its first Pocket PC-based PDA "fairly soon, at least in the United States." However, Dell sees only limited near-term growth opportunities because of the small size of the market.
Wow, I really wouldn't expect the owner of the company to say that their products are good and will do good in the market (sarcasm).