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Re: Sony Drops PDA Business!

  • Subject: Re: Sony Drops PDA Business!
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@schestowitz.com>
  • Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 17:12:33 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops.pilot
  • References: <r91n11h1o8dqckq668386169goqh99955l@4ax.com> <9p6o11ljki3mh70lool47kc2d18rg2sn5h@news20.forteinc.com>
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Jeffrey Kaplan wrote:

> It is alleged that William P.N. Smith claimed:
> 
> ; http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20050222_123636.html
> 
> It was only a matter of time until they dropped completely out of the
> Palm PDA market.  Japan was their last market, they pulled out of the
> rest of the world last Summer.  Expect their next entry to be either a
> Symbian or MS Smartphone due to their cellphone partnership with
> Ericsson.
> 
> It was rumored last year that Sony had bid to purchase what became
> PalmSource from Palm Inc.  It is my opinion that failure to complete
> that bid is what made them decide to drop the PalmOS specifically, not
> the more general drop in sales after they flooded the market.

Good take... I hope you don't mind me making it public...

http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2005/02/23/sony-drop-pdas-altogether/

I am among the sad Palm users that see the damaging effects of this.

Roy

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