Ms. Dubinsky: Handspring was founded in July 1998 by Jeff Hawkins, Ed Colligan and myself, to create a great new company focused in the area of hand-held computing. Our history was, we were the early people behind, and Jeff was the Founder of, a company called Palm Computing, which built the original Pilot hand-held computer, and build the PalmPilot, Palm V, Palm VII, and those other products in that category. Palm was purchased by 3Com, and we decided to go start Handspring to have a company that was really focused on hand-held computing, as opposed to being part of a networking company. Handspring has, since beginning shipments a couple of years ago, built a very significant market presence very quickly in the hand-held computing space. Most people put us somewhere in the range of 20%-25% of the hand-held computing market. Handspring had a very quick run to a significant position in the hand-held computing market today.
TWST: What will be the significant trends in that sector in the next few
years?
Ms. Dubinsky: You'll continue to see real growth in just the general
hand-held computing area, more and more applications will be developed,
and more and more people will discover the power of these devices. In
addition to that, you'll see a trend toward wireless capabilities, where
more of that will either be added as modular functionality, or
integrated into these devices, such that people will have always-on
communications capability with them.
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