Handheld Sales drop, HP loses market share
Posted by Chris Leckness on 02/2/06 in PocketPC
"The top five vendors are Palm, HP, Dell, Acer, and Medion. The "others", however, exceeded shipments of Acer and Medion at 349,067 units in Q4 of last year."
|
Rank
|
Vendor
|
Q4 2005
|
Q4 share
|
Q4 2004
|
Q4 share
|
|
1
|
Palm
|
1,019,464
|
45.6%
|
1,174,371
|
43%
|
|
2
|
HP
|
465,000
|
20.8%
|
695,427
|
25.4%
|
|
3
|
Dell
|
178,500
|
8%
|
196,572
|
7.2%
|
|
4
|
Acer
|
126,602
|
5.7%
|
60,197
|
2.2%
|
|
5
|
Medion
|
96,942
|
4.3%
|
115,000
|
4.2%
|
|
|
Others
|
349,067
|
15.6%
|
491,849
|
18%
|
|
|
Total
|
2,235,575
|
100%
|
2,733,386
|
100%
|
I wonder why HP’s marketshare has stumbled?
Source : IDC via The Enquirer
Written by Chris Leckness · Filed Under PocketPC
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HP’s PPC line was getting long in the tooth compared to the other vendors. Other reasons could be Dell’s aggresive marketing of the Axim series and emergence of new PocketPC lines by the “Others.” Seems to me that HP’s getting lazy….