That's been observed I agree. What is sad is the number of corporations making business decisions based on Gartner stats...


>I really don't trust Gartner stats as the employee writing the research tends to skew things in favor of how they want. I've seen reports coming out of Gartner that said you should be using Java over Microsoft tools and another report the same week that says the opposite.
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>>"Embedded Linux powered 14 percent of smart phones shipped worldwide in Q1 of 2005, up 412 percent from 3.4 percent in Q1 2004, according to Gartner Inc. Windows Mobile shipments also grew substantially, rising 50 percent from a 2.9 share in Q1 2004 to 4.5 percent in Q1 2005, Gartner says."
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>>"Of the 180 million mobile terminals shipped in Q1 2005, Gartner says 8.4 million were "smart phones"—devices with complex operating systems such as Linux, Symbian, Palm OS or Windows Mobile. In other words, about 1.2 million Linux smart phones shipped in Q1 2005, along with just under 400,000 Windows Mobile devices."
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>>http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1839133,00.asp