Close to 700,000 Palm Pre apps downloaded to date
By Donald Melanson 
posted June 20th 2009 5:21AM
posted June 20th 2009 5:21AM
There may not be a ton of Pre apps available just yet, but it looks like there's enough to accumulate an impressive 666,511 downloads as of June 17th, which likely means that we're close to or past the 700,000 mark by now. As you can see above in graph form courtesy of Medialets, things have been rising steadily as more and more apps became available, and there's no noticeable sign of a drop-off even as apps remained around the 30 mark after the end of the first week. Of course, it's obviously still a little early to draw any firm conclusions, and there's no telling how things could shake out once the long-awaited PreFart and PreBeer apps make their debut.
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The thing is, wouldn't you have to be a real moron to pay good money for an expensive, untested phone from a struggling company partnering with a second-rate mobile network when you could have bought an iPhone?
I'm a Pre owner:
The WebOS SDK will be infinitely easier to program with, since its based on conventional web code. I'm sure in a years time they will have an insane amount of apps.
Also, The SDK isnt even out yet.
Iphone is a great device, but some people wanted a physical keyboard because they cant lose the functionality of their blackberry. I've wanted an Iphone since they came out but I work too much from my mobile device - I NEED a physical keyboard.
Pre appeals to those people like me, who want the fun functionality of a touch screen, but need a dedicated keyboard.
Pre isn't an IPHONE killer - its a Blackberry killer.
Blackberry Storm? Never gonna be mainstream. No apps, no support, no one cares.
but as a pre owner, I think Palm is very ambitious to come out with a device like this after so many years of being low on the totem pole. But if they REALLY want to compete with either apple or blackberry, they need to step it up much faster.
Here's hoping! cheers to all technology! Lets get better phones for cheaper IMO!
Wow, whats up with all the Palm Pre hate from the Apple crowd? Competition is always good as it drives the market forward with innovation.
i wanna see numbers after the SDK & the GSM version of the pre is released.
This world would be a much better place if phones were exclusive to certain networks.
Oh don't mind me, just a disgruntled Verizon customer.. Scoffing at all our locked down phones.
Wow these topics really get heated... Its funny because non of these apple fans even work for apple. They think if they defend apple maybe they will get a free ipod??? I dunno...
Palm pre has sold roughly 150,000 phones or more and by the time the sdk comes out the phone will be out in UK, CANADA, and other parts of europe... Lil basic math means we will se between 4 and 10 million phones by end of summer meaning developers will really enjoy jumping on this platform.... So how about we have this conversation by then.... Lets not forget palm promised flash for browser, video recording, and tethering... So once this is all out even more consumers will buy. Oh and 1 last thing... When this phone is out in february on verizon A atat and the palm eos is out for atat this phones popularitty will explode... Be weary apple fan boys palm pre success is on the horizon
REALITY CHECK HERE: Apple will sell over 1,000,000+ iPhones this weekend. For a platform of 40,000,000+ strong, that's a pretty decent number.
Come back to me when Palm sells even 1 million Pres. Until then, it's nothing but Pre-ejaculations.
Apple screwed themselves with the iPhone....where do they go from here? Once the market is saturated with iHumpers where do they go? It's the iPod all over again - they can't really come out with anything new. Look at the 3Gs...the biggest change in it is the compass. A freakin' compass. From here on out it's going to be releases with more memory and nothing really new. How long can the iPhone hold out on that?
So are you trying to get a free Pre?
That's actually really impressive given the smaller user base and number of apps. 2 years of iPhone AND iPod touch sales vs one month of Pre sales. I'd say 700,000 is impressive.
And I bet they weren't all fart apps.
Not exactly, the App Store is less than a year old.
They weren't fart apps but all 30+ Pre apps are FREE. You better hope people download lots of free apps. I can't imagine the numbers if developers start charging.
See, the thing a lot of the fanboys are missing is that, out of the 30 apps for the pre, all 30 are probably useful. On the other hand out of the 50000 Iphone apps, there are what.. 5% at the most that are actually useful/produtive and another 5-10% are being produced to fill the gaps in the Iphone's basic functionality.
Now before some jerkoff jumps down my throat, I'm only guessing numbers here. I have no idea if all 30 apps are useful. However considering Palm's past and Apple's current catalog of Ibeer, Iflashlight, I-whatever-useless-crap-you-can-think-of-to-make-a-buck. I don't believe I'm that far off.
Personally I think the more the merrier, more competition means apple will be foreced to innovate and do more then they did for 3.0.
Competition is good for us, so I say go for Palm and anyone else who wants to give it a shot.
Mobile apps existed long before the iPhone, but app stores didn't! It was Apple, indeed who invented the concept of apps stores, and vrtually every other mobile provider is just copying Apple in this regard. Before Apple, one had to hunt and dig to download mobile apps from here-and-there, and from all over the place. So, love em or hate em, Apple gets the credit for launching the App Store and for making mobile apps centrally and conveniently downloadable and thus more popular and relevant than ever.
Remember, John Rubenstein, and over 250 former Apple employees, which Palm poached from Apple, were the ones to have developed the Pre, so it's not surprising that that after hacking the Pre to be recognized as an iPod, that Palm would also copy the Apple App store's formula and promote it the way the best way they can, and who can blame them?
The fact is: The now over 50,000 iPhone apps (and growing by 400 per day!) puts the iPhone in the same league or position that Windows is does in the desktop space! It's apps, more than who's got the better hardware or OS, that really sells mobile phones, just as much as it does on the desktop. Like the huge Windows apps catalogue, so likewise, will the iPhone's huge app catalogue be hard to surmount. It could happen, but I wouldn't try holding my breath waiting for it!
DEW, DEW, DEW. Do you actually think there weren't app stores before Apple? Sure they weren't as big but they were there. I'm sorry but Apple has never invented shit. All they do is swoop in before everyone else does. Touch screen? They got on the market MAYBE a year before some of the big names put out their phone. Multitouch? As has been demonstrated time and time again multiple companies have been working on this. Hell grad students put out video 8 months to the soundtrack of the Animatrix of doing the same shit the iPhone could do. App stores? Crap man. Do you know how many mobile phone stores are out there for applications years before the iPhone. Seriously. Stop being a 'tard when it comes to seeing what Apple is: which is simple. A bunch of ideas come out, Apple looks at it, puts a pretty coat of paint on the idea, then drops Steve Jobs infront of his lemmings to sell it to them and they buy it because it has an Apple on it. That is all. Think Different? Whatever. More like think conformist where Apple controls everything on your narrow platform.
>Mobile apps existed long before the iPhone, but app stores didn't! It was Apple, indeed who invented the concept of apps stores, and vrtually every other mobile provider is just copying Apple in this regard. Before Apple, one had to hunt and dig to download mobile apps from here and there...
"Hunt all over for applications?" Obviously you are a new comer to the PDA/smartphone game. Go check out Handago:
http://www.handango.com
They have been around almost since the first Palm PDA in 2000. I purchased apps from them for all my PDA's (Palm V, Toshiba E510, Sony UX, Palm TC, Verizon 6600, several others that I have forgotten)
oh, you are defining a "mobile app store" as one where you browse them through a smartphone? I browsed and downloaded apps frem Handago directly to my Verizon V6600 Palm PPC in 2004.
Handago has 190,000 applications on line covering all OS (except Apple!).
http://corp.handango.com/PressRelease.jsp?siteId=1&CKey=1_PRESSRELEASE_PR021109
Apple is the new kid on the block as far as app stores are concerned. A billion downloads so far? Handago has them beat.
If and when there are millions of pre users then the app store might begin to rival apple's.
I'm on a waiting list to get a Palm Pre... so there are still legions of potential buyers of apps out there...
Palm, whynot steal iPhone sdk, just like you steal iTunes for syncing media contents.
wow, nice job palm
Yah and imagine how many more apps would be downloaded if the Pre wasn't only on Sprint. Damn these lock in deals. It shouldn't matter what provider you have.
Don't forget to add Apple's 'tarded behavior over the last 6 years. That alone is enough to negate every other down side of the Pre. I'd rather have a Startac from '96 then an iPhone because of this one -.
The funny thing about all this ankle-biting is that Apple fanboy's should pray for Palm's success.
Strong competition means accelerated development; let Apple rest on their laurels, and the incremental "evolutionary" releases will slow to a crawl. Think about how the original Palm PDA's improved once WinMo started producing some decent hardware. If not for that, we would all still be using B&W 160x160 screens.
Bring on the competition, and everyone wins. Maybe even inspire cell ophone companies to lower data plan prices to try to lure users to their phone?
Naw, that probably won't happen...
Come on guys,....Rubenstein left Apple because he butted-heads with Steve Jobs regarding what the iPhone should be.....Jobs envisioned the current iPhone and Rubenstein the Pre. The Pre is simply the brown excrement prototype that Jobs regarded as waste. Its a waste of a product on a waste of a network. Do I want an iPhone?....NO....Do I want a Black Berry? ... NO.....do I want a Pre? ....Not a chance!! The Pre sales are predominantly pre-existing Sprint subscribers.....if Palm and Sprint cannot attract customers from Verizon and AT&T...which the data says they have not, they are DEAD. Period. End of Story. You guys can continue to have the pre-school...."My phone is better than your phone" all you want....it won't change the facts. Palm will be gone in a year.......welcome to DELL WebOS my friends.