Everex Dumps WinCE Devices
from the ouch dept
Another company has stopped making WinCE devices. This time it’s Everex, which had a pretty good reputation. If anyone’s not convinced that Microsoft’s attempt to take on the Palm devices has failed, I’m not sure what other evidence they need.
Comments on “Everex Dumps WinCE Devices”
With no Newton Inc and the Newton engineers
it is a slam-dunk (as it were) for the Palm Computing group.
Ok, ok. Really its about 2 things:
1) Price
2) Preformance
The palm wins on price. And the palm preforms as you expect.
WinCE preforms as one has come to anticipate Microsoft products to preform.
But, Bill won’t throw in the towel. He sees the embedded market as being a priority…so CE will still remain. For a LONG time.
Re: With no Newton Inc and the Newton engineers
Hey, I agree with you. Just for the record, I clearly said that Microsoft was losing against Palm devices. I never said
that CE was going away, and I don’t expect it to at all. But in that one market, it seems to me that they failed big
time. They have been known to come back from things like that, though. However, having a number of OEMs stop
making CE devices is not a good sign at all.
Re: Re: With no Newton Inc and the Newton engineers
At the point where for $300 you can get WinCE’d is when M$ has a chance to sell the devices.
Because you can spend $300 and not have to ask the spouse.
(this is right from Jeff Hawkins own playbook)