unh? PalmOne just celebrated selling its 1 millionth Treo6xx, and your 6% market share figure probably only represents the smartphone part of the PalmOS business. Bob.
Actually, the celebration was for selling 1 million Treo 600s. Overall, about 1.7 million Treo smartphones have been sold.
Quoting the press release at http://www.palmone.com/us/company/pr/news_feed_story.epl?reqid=697739:
MILPITAS, Calif., April 19, 2005 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- Celebrating more than 1 million Treo(TM) 600 smartphones sold worldwide, palmOne, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLMO) today is giving away a Treo smartphone every 5 minutes for 12 hours, from 9 a.m. PDT until 9 p.m. PDT.
"Since the Treo 180 began shipping in 2002, we've sold more than 1.7 million Treo devices, and customers continue to regard the Treo as one of the best smartphones on the market," said Page Murray, palmOne vice president of marketing. "This 'Thanks a Million' promotion is our way of saying thank you."
-- Ben Combee, Senior Software Engineer, palmOne, Inc. "Combee on Palm OS" weblog: http://palmos.combee.net/ Developer Forum Archives: http://news.palmos.com/read/all_forums/
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