Friday, February 17, 2006
iPAQ Revenues Down 25 Percent
Posted by Janak Parekh in "NEWS" @ 08:00 AM
"During its most recent financial quarter, HP took in $216 million from sales of its iPAQ models. This is 25 percent below the amount the company took in during the same period of the previous year."
Ed over at Brighthand speculates that it's part of the general decline of nonconnected devices, but HP hasn't helped itself by: a) having an inconsistent device strategy that cannibalizes their own products (noticed that the hx4700 isn't listed on their webpage anymore?); b) being extremely slow to release connected/converged devices, and c) slow to release WM5-supported devices and upgrades, essentially making many of their devices outdated while other vendors blow past them. Let's hope the recent HP reorganization effort bears fruit and turns this line around.
Ed over at Brighthand speculates that it's part of the general decline of nonconnected devices, but HP hasn't helped itself by: a) having an inconsistent device strategy that cannibalizes their own products (noticed that the hx4700 isn't listed on their webpage anymore?); b) being extremely slow to release connected/converged devices, and c) slow to release WM5-supported devices and upgrades, essentially making many of their devices outdated while other vendors blow past them. Let's hope the recent HP reorganization effort bears fruit and turns this line around.
