{"id":138652,"date":"2010-01-05T00:04:01","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T05:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palminfocenter.com\/news\/10022\/consumer-preference-market-share-for-webos-drops\/"},"modified":"2010-01-05T00:04:01","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T05:04:01","slug":"consumer-preference-market-share-for-webos-drops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/138652","title":{"rendered":"Consumer Preference, Market Share For webOS Drops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.palminfocenter.com\/images\/uploads\/hodgman-piechart-thumb.PNG\" class=\"right\" alt=\"Chart\" \/>As opposed to their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palminfocenter.com\/news\/9969\/palms-smartphone-market-share-not-budging\/\">last report<\/a> from September, which was somewhat ambiguous on Palm&#8217;s current fortunes, ChangeWave Research&#8217;s latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.changewaveresearch.com\/articles\/2010\/01\/smart_phone_20100104.html\">90-day overview<\/a> of the consumer smartphone space is decidedly more gloomy.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe survey of 4,068 consumers showed that in addition to Palm&#8217;s marketshare falling slightly by 1%, consumer preference for webOS has also dipped in the face of fierce competition from new Android handsets, dropping from 8% to 4% of planned future smartphone purchases. As the report&#8217;s authors note, Palm&#8217;s best chance to boost their slowing momentum is their upcoming launches on new carriers, finally freeing them of the Sprint exclusivity that many have blamed for webOS&#8217;s relatively unspectacular sales figures thus far.\n<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=b88a8647cc619a64aee9580fbac1daf0&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=b88a8647cc619a64aee9580fbac1daf0&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2226\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As opposed to their last report from September, which was somewhat ambiguous on Palm&#8217;s current fortunes, ChangeWave Research&#8217;s latest 90-day overview of the consumer smartphone space is decidedly more gloomy. The survey of 4,068 consumers showed that in addition to Palm&#8217;s marketshare falling slightly by 1%, consumer preference for webOS has also dipped in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}