Tuesday, July 10, 2001

Palm OS growth in Asia Pacific

<A HREF="http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/micro_stories.pl?ACCT=no&TICK=PALM&STORY=/www/story/07-10-2001/0001529204&EDATE">Palm</A> has issued a press release stating year-end market data for 2000 released by IDC(1) shows that products based on the Palm OS platform showed unit growth in Asia Pacific outside Japan, which is not covered by IDC's report, and People's Republic of China (PRC), where Palm currently has no appointed distributor. IDC's data shows that products based on the Palm OS platform had a share of 62.5 percent of the personal companion market across these regions, compared to 1999 year-end data from IDC showing market share of 51.7 percent. This market share represents a unit growth of 237 percent for Palm OS based devices.

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