Gartner Says WinCE Out-Shipped the Palm OS in Q3
Worldwide PDA shipments exceeded 2.8 million units, as Gartner Claims that for the first time Microsoft Windows CE licensees out shipped the Palm OS for the first time. Yet palmOne still retains the leading spot during a declining quarter.
The Microsoft Windows CE operating system accounted for 48.1 percent of worldwide PDA shipments in third quarter of 2004. Palm OS units represented 29.8 percent of the market, down from 46.9 percent market share in the same period last year (see table 1).
"The robust Microsoft Windows CE market has been driven in part by the wide choice of vendors," said Todd Kort, principal analyst in Gartner's Computing Platforms Worldwide group. "Business customers tend to steer clear of markets dominated by a single supplier, which is where the Palm OS market stands today."
"A decline in Palm OS shipments was expected in the third quarter of 2004, but not of this magnitude," Mr. Kort said. "The company is pouring the vast majority of its resources into its smartphone business. A reduction in the number of PDA models palmOne offers is expected in 2005."
Table 1
Preliminary Worldwide PDA Shipment Estimates by Operating System for 3Q04 (Units)
|
Company |
3Q04 Shipments | 3Q04 Market Share (%) | 3Q03 Shipments | 3Q03 Market Share (%) | Growth (%) |
| Windows CE | 1,375,866 | 48.1 | 1,037,874 | 41.2 | 32.6 |
| Palm OS | 850,821 | 29.8 | 1,181,202 | 46.9 | -28.0 |
| Research In Motion | 565,000 | 19.8 | 123,775 | 4.9 | 356.5 |
| Linux | 24,500 | 0.9 | 48,550 | 1.9 | -49.5 |
| Others | 42,620 | 1.5 | 125,745 | 5.0 | -66.1 |
| Total | 2,858,807 | 100.0 | 2,517,146 | 100.0 | 13.6 |
Source: Gartner Dataquest (November 2004)
palmOne continued to lead the worldwide market in PDA hardware shipments, but its shipments declined 13.3 percent in the third quarter of 2004. PalmOne's market share totaled 26.2 percent, but Hewlett-Packard and Research In Motion showed substantial increases in shipments in the third quarter of 2003 (see Table 2).
Table 2
Preliminary Worldwide PDA Vendor Shipment Estimates for 3Q04 (Units)
|
Company |
3Q04 Shipments | 3Q04 Market Share (%) | 3Q03 Shipments | 3Q03 Market Share (%) | Growth (%) |
| PalmOne | 748,950 | 26.2 | 863,993 | 34.3 | -13.3 |
| Hewlett-Packard | 692,113 | 24.2 | 578,500 | 23.0 | 19.6 |
| Research In Motion | 565,000 | 19.8 | 123,775 | 4.9 | 356.5 |
| Dell | 185,300 | 6.5 | 134,813 | 5.4 | 37.4 |
| Symbol Technologies | 63,521 | 2.2 | 72,690 | 2.9 | -12.6 |
| Others | 603,923 | 21.1 | 743,375 | 29.5 | -18.8 |
| Total | 2,858,807 | 100.0 | 2,517,146 | 100.0 | 13.6 |
Source: Gartner Dataquest (November 2004)
"Demand for wireless e-mail continues to increase as the primary driver of new PDA deployments. The shipment growth of Research In Motion nearly balances the decline of Palm OS, Linux, Symbian and proprietary PDAs," Mr. Kort said. "We expect worldwide PDA shipments to total 11.9 million units in 2004, up approximately 4 percent from 2003."
Additional information is available in the Gartner Alert Windows CE Surpasses Palm OS in 3Q04. The Alert provides preliminary results for the worldwide and U.S. PDA market, as well overall shipments on a regional basis.
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RE: Not sure what this really means...
I, Captain
"You will never make progress trying to sail into the wind - chart your course!"
RE: Not sure what this really means...
Now if you look at real and valid statistics like "Unreturned units delivered to customers that paid within thirty to sixty days." Then you have something meaningful. With that, you see Palm OS way ahead of WinCE devices since WinCE / PocketPC deivces have a very high return rate.
More spin form the Microsoft lapdogs in my opinon.
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Funny, I've never seen anything to indicate that PPC has any higher of a return rate than Palm. I suspect that you're pulling this 'fact' out of your never-ending stash of platform bias. If you've got actual evidence, please present it. If your backup is the same unsubstaniated tripe about how horrible PocketPC is to use that every other Palm crusader around here spouts without ever having touched a PocketPC, please don't bother.
By the way, PocketPC and Windows Mobile are two names for the same thing, and sales of actual raw "Windows CE" devices are next to non-existant. These numbers aren't faked, kids.
RE: Not sure what this really means...
What it really means is that PalmSource and PalmOne need to get their butts in gear about getting some OS 6 devices out.
Probably the best comparison would be to take the PalmOne number (748,950) and compare it to the HP + Dell shipped numbers (877,413), but clearly there are some other Pocket PC devices in that "other" category.
RE: Not sure what this really means...
Please provide links to these "valid statistics" that indicate that rougly 38.1611290634408% of Windows CE devices are returned and 0% of Palm OS devices are, because that is what it would take for CE to fall to 850,820 units, one unit behind PalmOS.
More spin form the Microsoft lapdogs in my opinon.
Maybe you are just dizzy from your own spinning?
RE: Not sure what this really means...
Uh, like what? Their definition was strict enough that the Treo didn't make the cut, so MS Smartphones certainly didn't, and there are no "PDA" devices running WinCE other than PPCs.
RE: Not sure what this really means...
> didn't make the cut, so MS Smartphones certainly didn't, and
> there are no "PDA" devices running WinCE other than PPCs.
Thousands upon thousands of Windows CE devices that are used in factory, warehouse, retail and other commercial settings often for tracking inventory, scanning barcodes, etc. They are counting Symbol's devices that fit this category, so I have little doubt that a large percentage of the "other" 500,000 unaccounted for Windows CE devices in this table are also of that type.
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The interesting thing now is that criticism is now coming from Palm afficionados. The majority of the people raising concerns are current palm users. This is different! Now Palm users are starting to envy WinMobile devices (BT, Wifi, + voice recorder, etc...). This is a startling change.
I have been a Palm loyalist/fanatic for 6+ years. I used to change PDAs every 8 months or so. I am now considering a switch to Windows Mobile as I do not want to spend money to buy the T5 (innovation + "wow" factor - missing functions just does not add up for me). I have been unhappily using my Tungsten C for its wifi. I don't want something (SD) sticking out of my PDA nor do I want to carry it in a large case (Enfora) or use an unsupported device (Sony). There are no viable Palm PDAs with wifi.
Also, do you remember when Palm service was actually great?
The problems are not the doings of MS. The problems lies fully in PalmOne and Palm Source.
This is a sad day.
The ship is sinking!
RE: Not sure what this really means...
Symbol isn’t selling hundreds of thousands of WinCE devices, as you can see on the chart. In any event, they switched their new units from raw CE to PPC. More cost effective to develop for a single platform, for them and their customers.
Most of the unaccounted for PPCs are probably the various rebrands of the HTC XDA line, and other minor PPC Phone Editions from overseas, as well as the local PocketPC market in Europe. It’s not like it’s a totally unaccountable number--Medion alone probably accounts for 10% of it, and rebrands of HTC phones another 30-50%.
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A shame that Christmas '04 is going to end up being such an underwhelming one for P1, as they did pretty well this time last year.
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So is PalmSource.
"I don't believe these data. Palm OS still dominate the market, I didn't see anybody around me using PPC."
That's not a statistically valid sampling. Gartner offers hard data to back up their numbers, and it's generally considered to be a sign of fanaticism to faith in the presence of conflicting facts.
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I'll put $10 on the fact that PalmOne will not have as good of a Christmas selling season as last year, and even so far as not as good as HP's this year. If their T5 is their best shot, it's FUBAR. Stands for everything I'm against in the PDA realm.
-Bosco
NX80v + Wifi + BT + T637
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I have a TH55 and I am seriously considering a T5. I like that Palm. Sure it could be better, or cheaper, or whatever... the point is that you can not overule it just because you do not like it. Likewise, if I like it, that does not mean that it is the ultimate PDA.
Can money produce THE product? Microsoft (Windows media center, PPC and some failures) seems to know the answer...
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Current fan of a 320x480 tablet shaped Palm with built in BT+Wifi for less than US$450
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Today, both PalmSource and PalmOne are doing *some* things correctly, it is just too little too late.
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It's disgraceful that Acer can put a microphone and Bluetooth in its handheld for £180 whilst PalmOne's T5 top of the range handheld can't offer a microphone at £260.
I am definitely NOT buying the abomination that is the T5, which is let's face it the ugly result of a Tunsten E frankensteined with a 256Mb memory card and the screen from a T3.
I'm going to sit in the UK sulking until 2005, when PalmOne finally finds it in its grace to unleash the Treo 650 in Europe. That with a 256Mb card will give me the much needed voice recording AND kill two birds with one stone for me - mobile and handheld.
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YES I BLAME NAGEL! How much market share has PalmOS lost under his watch?
Cobalt = Copland.
The reason the CEO gets paid the big bucks is because he or she has the ultimate responsibility. The buck truly stops with the CEO. There is no one else to blame if things go wrong. There are no excuses that will cover up the mistakes.
RE: Trend
There is your big mistake! You think the mass market wants something revolutionary. That is not true. Only net geeks like you want new stuff right now. We are just comming out of recession. The mass market is not as techo-hungry as you.
The USB Flash Drive + PDA combo is going to sell very, very well. As George Carlon said (while he doesn't bitch about Bush) a while ago, "Put to things together that has never been together before, and lot of schmucks will buy it." Viola! We have a great combination here.
And the one thing NONE of you techo-addicts-never-gets-laid-crowd can see is that having a Flash drive in the T5 will do the following:
* Limit HotSync and the need for conduits.
* Have a user carry around a Palm device more since it is not just for running Palm apps anymore -- it is a digital wallet!
* Has a potential to run MULITIPLE OSes on a single device.
Please take your head out of your "I want an ultimate Palm device" butt and see what the real market is please!
... or all of you at Star Trek conventions or watching Anime at home too much?
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People don't want new features, you say? Wow! I guess the sales of all those smartphones, digital video recorders, cutting-edge laptops, and bleeding-edge desktops are all figments of our collective imaginations. They should have just put a USB flash memory key into an old VHS recorder--that REALLY would have sold!
PocketPCs are piling on the features: removable batteries, WiFi, dual wireless, dual slots, VGA, CIR, and a dozen other things. They're not hurting in sales. Quite the opposite, as a matter of fact.
The evidence doesn't support your BS assertion. The majority of users want more features, better, and cheaper. It's the same as any other product.
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- Why o why don't we all change to PPC if they have all the best stuff (allegedly that is).
- Why o why am I starting to look over to the PPC info more frecuently?
- Why o why everytime I look at the Axims and new iPaqs I find their form factor so repelling?
- Why o why do we think that talking "BIG" will make our points more valid?
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Current fan of a 320x480 tablet shaped Palm with built in BT+Wifi for less than US$450
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...
* Limit HotSync and the need for conduits.
* Have a user carry around a Palm device more since it is not just for running Palm apps anymore -- it is a digital wallet!
* Has a potential to run MULITIPLE OSes on a single device.
...
... or all of you at Star Trek conventions or watching Anime at home too much?"
I always love it when irony rears it's ugly head. Yes, I think that the average consumer has a big problem with conduits, just as I'm sure he knows what they are. Digital wallets that still need a cable, when thumb drives are smaller than just the cable, when 1 gig goes for just 50 bucks. And multiple OS's I know that's what I've been demanding of my handheld since day one! But I must just be out of touch with the needs of the consumer due to all of my Star Trekking.
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Yea, a microphone which PDAs have had since 1997 is just too revolutionary for PalmOne's top of the range PDA seven years later in 2004.
And RhinoSteve, as far as our being the "techo-addicts-never-gets-laid-crowd", I think my wife speaks for most of us here when she tells you where you can shove yours!
Besides, your resorting to belittling attacks on the posters here merely demonstrates that you've run out of arguments for your case.
Even if we were the "techo-addicts-never-gets-laid-crowd" how is it relevant to the fact that PalmOne have taken steps backward with their top of the line handheld?
You can deny that the T5 is mediocore for the money asked, just as Palm denied the m505 had too dim a screen when it was released. Well, the T5 is out there now for people to make their choice. The Gartner study seems to suggest people are already making their choice.
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-Bosco
NX80v + Wifi + BT + T637
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Ah..the Adventures of Baron Von Munchausen continues. Rhino, only net geeks like you are buying PDAs at all, in case you haven't noticed. The average consumer doesn't want them, or need them. The hottest selling gadget(s) this holiday season isn't going to be a PDA, it will be consumer gear such as iPods, PVRs, game consoles, HDTVs, digital cameras, etc. Handhelds have become marginalized, and only a blind Palm zealot like yourself could possibly believe that PalmOne is winning this fight against Microsoft, as its market share continues to decline while Pocket PC grows.
But then again you're also the same person who said Pocket PC put countless startup companies out of business (without providing names or any valid proof), and that the Tungsten C is the hottest selling wireless PDA on the market; both laughable claims.
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Anyhow ... this group is about six sigma from the typical PDA consumer base. Those with valid a marketing background knows this.
I stick by my words. You guys are skewed from your own personal views and don't know this market beyond internet posts and geek gathering trying to one up each other in expensive toy collections. A few of you may be get laid, but most of you don't. I still predict that the T5 will do well this Christmas. The "PDA and Flas drive" combo in its marketing is a very smart move.
I also predict we will see a Palm OS 6 device this spring as soon as the major third party apps are complete. That is what is keeping it back and not hardware engineering.
Copeland died mostly due to lackluster apps from the developer community and Microsoft not porting its Office Suite to it. The analogy is not the best here. And then there was MASH ... sigh!
Once the first Palm OS 6 devices are consumed and digested from you nerds, then we will get a good group of third party apps over the summer of 2005; as you all code and don't get a tan. By Christmas 2005, the next generation of Palm OS 6 devices will be out. We will see dual Bluetooth and WiFi embedded and you clowns will find something else to bitch about.
I predict you all will bitch about a lack of Bluetooth 2.0 support or there is no USB Master option on Multi-Connector. LOL!!!
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http://www.1src.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=73776#post73776
(Forgive the long URL - never have been able to get the hang of the TinyURL service!)
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Not sure what this really means...
I've seen all kinds of artciles like this recently. I remember
seeing the question of "what is considered a PDA?" being raised,
but I'm starting to wonder what "ships" means. Does shipping a
handheld to a store to be potentially be purchased constitute
a device that has "shipped"? Or does shipped mean actually
purchased (and not ever returned)?
John
Independent Palm Software Developer