Hearing that, honestly I’m amazed that Microsoft and their myriad of blunderous and unfocused handheld OS options had any penetration in that part of the world at all.

Whatever else Windows CE/Palm-Size PC/PocketPC/Windows Mobile may have been in the West, one thing it certainly was turned out to be a clusterfuck. Windows CE itself hung on for a surprisingly long time in non-handheld industrial and embedded applications, but interest in the PDA oriented side of it basically vanished in a puff of smoke shortly after the release and subsequent Earth-shattering popularity of the iPhone.

Somehow the shambling husks of Palm OS and PocketPC managed to shuffle on until 2009 and 2010, respectively, to little fanfare and practically nobody in the world caring anymore. For what it’s worth that means PocketPC/whateveritis technically outlasted Palm. Just, not to the real benefit of anybody.