Globetechnology: PDA shipments drop: “Worldwide shipments of personal digital assistants declined for the third straight year, according to a new report.
Shipments of basic handheld PDAs lacking telephone capabilities shrank to 9.2 million units in 2004, down 13 per cent from 10.6 million units in 2003, the Framingham, Mass.-based research firm IDC said. It’s the first time in five years that sales dropped below 10-million units.”
What the article doesn’t say is that shipments of the PalmOne Treo more than made up for the “decline” in PDA sales. PalmOne sold more total units, but because the report doesn’t count smartphones and PDAs together, reporting just part of the data can make it seem like handhelds are in trouble.
Don’t believe it. As with so much these days, you have to dig and do the research yourself if you want to know anything. Relying on lazy reporting or deliberate spin won’t give you the whole story, and if you don’t have the whole story, you really don’t have anything.
Don’t believe me, either. Do you own research and come to your own conclusions.
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