Palm Pre Downloads From App Catalogue: It’s a struggle
Filed under: Cell Phones, Phone Software | By: Peter Chubb
Posted on: June 22, 2009 | 2 Comments
It has been just over two weeks since the launch of the Palm Pre, and Sprint stores sold out fast, not that there were many handsets built in the first place. Palm was not going to get their way as they imagined. They had hoped to take the fight to the Apple iPhone 3G, but apple were having none of it, and with the launch of the Apple iPhone 3G S, things have now become a lot tougher for the Pre.
Gizmodo are reporting that Medialets have download statistics for Palm’s App Catalogue. Palm was hoping that this would become very popular for them, but the results are looking a little bit sad at the moment. According to the report, the Palm App Catalogue has only had around 700,000 WebOS application downloads.
This result does sound good, and we have to remember that this figure is for two weeks, and when you look at the first month that the iPhone AppStore had been in service, there had been 60 million apps downloaded.
The biggest problem that the App Catalogue has is its lack of WebOS apps. When this app store was launched it had just 18 apps, it now has 30 apps, compare that to Apple who had 500 apps at its launch. Apple have since hit the one billionth app download. Palm needs to do something fast, otherwise the Pre will suffer badly, they need at least a thousand apps before word catches on about how good the Pre is.
Do you agree with Gizmodo or do you have a different opinion?
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Are you kidding me?!? The Apple app store didn’t even come out until a year after the original iphone was released, and you are complaining that the pre, which was released less than a month ago, looks “sad” with its lack of apps! Why wouldn’t you praise the fact that the pre, within 3 weeks of its release, has had over 700,000 downloads, while the iphone, for over a year, had ZERO!!!
This is a poorly written, biased article Peter. Read the article again, and then tell me you passed 4th grade English. You and your Apple fanboys need to get a clue and report what is really going on. The pre is going in a new direction, and the iphone, along with its brainwashed legion of defenders, is nervous and struggling to keep up. The iphone is a great media player and a fun toy, with a phone as an afterthought, and does not come close to comparing with the pre on business potential and overall ease of use. Gotta love multi-tasking…listening to pandora, surfing the web, and checking the score of the brewers game all at once. Sucks a lot of battery life, but that’s why God created the charger.
While I agree that the article does seem a bit biased against the Pre, I am looking forward to a larger catalog of apps.
As far as I am aware, Palm has not released the SDK for the Pre yet. I am sure the app catalog will expand greatly once it has been in the hands of developers for a while.
As a closing note, I do love my Pre, and it does a great job right out of the box.