According to an MSNBC article "Digital assistants continue to lose ground" the sales of PDA have dropped more than 8% so far this year. As a result major PDA makers such as Sony have nearly completed their exits from the market as smaller electronics makers have moved in and quickly gained market shares despite dropping profit margins.

The article says that PDA market continues to struggle to "evolve beyond its primary role as a PIM (personal information management) device." As more an more mobile phones are becoming more sophisticated and you have more "smart phones" able to handle some of the same things that PDAs do, people are less inclined to buy a PDA.

This is interesting news. IF less people are buying these things, what are the implications for libraries who provide services/programs/books for PDA's. Will this be something like the laser disc? It is hard to say. I hate to throw the baby out with the bathwater. But it is an interesting trend that deserves to be monitored.