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In Europe and the United States yet always market leaders is Palm on the territory of pocket computers. But the once unapproachable position of the business begins to rattle. In America, Palm its market share wanted to walk back from 71 to 58 per cent.

Figures of the market investigation desk NPD Techworld let see that Palm vigorously has must hand in. The shares of the licentiehouders on the operating system of Palm ascended well. Handspring posted ascended a records profit of 14 to 15 per cent and Sony from less thenper cent to six per cent market share. Also PocketPC takes market share way of Palm. The share of Compaq ascended from two to seven per cent and that of Hewlett-Packard ascended with two per cent to a total of five per cent. In total names all PocketPC-pocket computers in 2001 , 26 per cent of the market in, to respect of 15 per cent the year for that.

Also in Europe, Palm grounds lost. With 47 per cent also that is the business still market leader, but according to figures of IDC, all pocket computers lost with PalmOS jointly 40 per cent market share. Otherwise put as source NPD as IDC that the numbers sold pocket computers have been increased. As a reason, the investigation desks give up price valleys of the devices. That is equally also the reason that the yields of the hand heroes less strengthen have been increased. The number reshipped pocket computers have been taken off, because there piled up were large supplies in the distribution channels. That supplies way to work and gone about competition reasons its many producers till price abasements of the PDA.