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Handheld Sales drop, HP loses market share

Posted by Chris Leckness on February 2, 2006 – 3:25 pm  Share
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"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

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  • CookieKid
    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....
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