Tuesday, November 4, 2003
Future of Pocket PC
Posted by Andy Sjostrom in "THOUGHT" @ 03:15 AM
Various reports from the PDC conference are starting to emerge on the Internet. You can find one that will interest you below. I believe the person who shouted "NONE!" needs to revisit Microsoft's mission statement, check out the latest market share reports and perhaps take a quick look at hp's mobile business revenue reports. I do hope that Tablet PCs and Smartphones will do very well, but I realize that one does not fit all. I am confident that data centric, wireless handheld devices will play a major role in many scenarios tomorrow as they do today.
The future of Pocket PC? BRIGHT!
"Computing on the beach: Visions of Mobility
This was a very interesting panel discussion. The panel was comprised of folks from various MS product groups, MS Research, and the CTO of Acer was also in attendance. The main theme of the panel discussion was on how to advance mobile computing. The first question was one from the pdcblogger alias. The question was what the future of the Pocket PC is. Almost immediately one of the MS folks yells out NONE!. For the next 3 minutes the panel members (after removing the look of oh crap from their faces) spent their time backing off of that statement. But the laughter in the room and the force of the original reply left little doubt that the SmartPhone and the Tablet PC are going to squeeze the Pocket PC device into a very, very small niche market. As matter of fact the person from MS Research even said he didn’t think it was viable unless Pocket PCs were priced at $100.00 to $150.00."
The future of Pocket PC? BRIGHT!
"Computing on the beach: Visions of Mobility
This was a very interesting panel discussion. The panel was comprised of folks from various MS product groups, MS Research, and the CTO of Acer was also in attendance. The main theme of the panel discussion was on how to advance mobile computing. The first question was one from the pdcblogger alias. The question was what the future of the Pocket PC is. Almost immediately one of the MS folks yells out NONE!. For the next 3 minutes the panel members (after removing the look of oh crap from their faces) spent their time backing off of that statement. But the laughter in the room and the force of the original reply left little doubt that the SmartPhone and the Tablet PC are going to squeeze the Pocket PC device into a very, very small niche market. As matter of fact the person from MS Research even said he didn’t think it was viable unless Pocket PCs were priced at $100.00 to $150.00."
