Smartphones Up, PDAs Down -- But Does It Really Matter?
from the a-surprise-for-who? dept
It's still hard to understand why analyst firms get so worked up about the fact that PDA sales are down. This is especially true coming just a couple days after another research firm announced that smartphone sales are way up. It should be increasingly clear that these two markets are basically the same. We've said it before, of course, but when PCs first started adding modems or network cards, no one wrote reports warning that the sale of PCs was declining in the face of these new "connected PCs" catching on. People just realized that the PCs with a network connection were PCs with more features. The same thing is coming true with smartphones and PDAs. While the two products aren't in exactly the same market, it's becoming clear that the markets are merging, and treating them as unique is somewhat misleading.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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the problem with pda's....
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Re: the problem with pda's....
A scenario would be something like I have a phone, and I want a PDA. Since the technology is around, why don't I just get a smartphone and combine them both into one, and I could be using my existing phone plan. If I bought a PDA, I would have to get another plan entirely if I wanted wireless internet or data capabilities for it. Data plans for phones are mostly cheaper than plans for wireless PDAs.
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PDAs Remain Niche Market
See My new smartphone and Users Don't Really Want Device Convergence - Some Reasons...
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