Palm and HP have a plan to raise the abyss webOS, but recent U.S. smartphone market analysis suggests that the company will be an insurmountable task in front of them. According to the latest data from Nielsen, Palm OS fixed asked a mere 1.3% of smartphone market share in the United States. Do worse, this 1.3% includes the webOS and Palm OS as the Treo 600 P. devices although, the number of Palm OS devices is small, but it suggests webOS may have less than 1.3% of the market.
To put things in perspective, this figure is considerably lower than that recorded for Android 22.7%, 27.4% of RIM and 27.9% for the iOS market. Even the old Windows Mobile (14%) and Symbian (3.4%) to capture market share than webOS. For Palm trail even Symbian is distressing that Nokia is widely regarded as a poor artist in the North American market.
It should come as no surprise that webOS market share is at its lowest current hardware is not innovation. webOS is a very powerful mobile OS, but high range devices has been lacking. Just look at the before original Pre Plus and before 2. These three handsets represent more than 1.5 years of development and are desperately similar. HP Palm also offers the Pixi but that combination is not widely adopted and is generally considered a flop.
Palm is out of the mold before Pixi and propose innovative to publicize its OS webOS material excellent. Granted some of the shortage of innovation is a side effect of the merger. The two companies spent the major part of 2010 has focused on financial aspects and not on the development of products for webOS. With the merger now behind them, hopefully Palm uses all the available HP resources to produce a handset that will propel the company struggled upwards.
Fortunately, Rubinstein has a realistic assessment of the future of the Palm and does not seek to make the famous iPhone or Android killer. In a recent Churchill Club event moderated by Kara Swisher and Rubinstein conceded that Android and iOS are market leaders and confirmed that Palm is shooting for third place.
