Palm is preparing a Linux platform for future smartphones.
Ed Colligan, executive director of Palm , said the company will launch a new Linux-based platform by the end of the year that will improve the performance and stability of their handhelds and smartphones.
Despite this, Palm will continue to use Windows Mobile, which is in great demand among commercial customers and large telephone operators. Continuing to develop applications for the two products, Palm does not plan to stop its transition from PDA to smartphones. If we compare the pace of this campaign, then Palm has increased the share of smartphones from 28% in 2004 to 86% in 2007.
Palm does not intend to license its new Linux platform to third-party manufacturers, but it will use it to upgrade Palm OS, which will add to the old handhelds the ability to simultaneously process voice information and data traffic while maintaining the ability to switch between applications.
These changes will allow Palm to continue the tendency to increase sales to private buyers and small business employees, as sales revenues to enterprises continue to decrease. It is assumed that the share of sales to enterprises will fall from 50% in 2006 to 30% in 2009. On the contrary, it is expected that from 20% to 30% the share of small business buyers will increase, and from 30% to 40% the share of private clients.
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As for the iPhone, which gives no one peace, Ed Colligan believes that this smartphone has a slightly different market segment than Palm products, so there can be no competition here.
Despite this, Palm will continue to use Windows Mobile, which is in great demand among commercial customers and large telephone operators. Continuing to develop applications for the two products, Palm does not plan to stop its transition from PDA to smartphones. If we compare the pace of this campaign, then Palm has increased the share of smartphones from 28% in 2004 to 86% in 2007.
Palm does not intend to license its new Linux platform to third-party manufacturers, but it will use it to upgrade Palm OS, which will add to the old handhelds the ability to simultaneously process voice information and data traffic while maintaining the ability to switch between applications.
These changes will allow Palm to continue the tendency to increase sales to private buyers and small business employees, as sales revenues to enterprises continue to decrease. It is assumed that the share of sales to enterprises will fall from 50% in 2006 to 30% in 2009. On the contrary, it is expected that from 20% to 30% the share of small business buyers will increase, and from 30% to 40% the share of private clients.
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As for the iPhone, which gives no one peace, Ed Colligan believes that this smartphone has a slightly different market segment than Palm products, so there can be no competition here.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/6641/
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