Wow. Blogs used to be free of media bias and corporate influence. Thomas Ricker, you've just shown us that Engadget has sold out. Your bias is disgusting.
How many app download did Apple have 30 days after the first iPhone was released? Zero.
The more interesting question is, how many application downloads were there from the Apple App Store 30-days after it was opened?
I'm sorry but it is utterly ridiculous to ask how many applications were downloaded from something that didn't exist and really does not allow you to compare like with like.
It's may be old but it's not less legit. How can you seriously expect a phone that came out less than 3 weeks ago, and still has no official SDK out, to have what, hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of apps??
Oh and your Porsche analogy is so bad I'm not even gonna bother commenting why it's wrong on so many levels.
It all boils down to the Apple fan attack machine desperately wants to paint the Pre as a failure.
You see, these numbers are totally fake, and by no means reflects the PATHETICLY small numbers of Pres that were sold. Also no app store, other than Apple's, could possibly garner this much usage EVER!
I mean, it not even an Apple project, so these numbers cant be real!
Without wanting to get into another boring iPhone vs. ? fight, there is no point comparing these figures to the first month of Apple's App Store. The App Store's initial success was largely based on the fact that 1st-gen iPhone owners had been waiting a year to do more on their phone than surf the web. Apple kept on marketing the iPhone as a computer, the community had jailbroken it to deploy their own apps and there was lots of expectation and frustration. The Apple hype machine (e.g. Engadget, etc.) also contributed to this by banging on about the App Store and the need for legitimate apps from day 1.
In other words, the conditions were extremely different back then. It took Apple a year to get apps to there users whereas Palm already have their marketplace setup and will have there SDK out to developers imminently. Just let them get on with the job and congratulate them for what they've done.
@Look You do realize that you are one of the few people on this site that actually attacks anyone. And you do it all the time. Its ridiculous, and i really really wish you would just get effing banned already. Everything has to be some kind of power struggle with Apple. You call all the Apple people haters, but here you are spreading your FUD again for the 2nd time just in this thread. Man you are just really really pathetic.
People with iphones don't want this phone to fail, YOU WANT PEOPLE WITH IPHONES TO THINK THAT, you really do. You see it justifies your whole existence and that is really sad. I have had an iphone since the first one came out and ive got a 3GS. When my friend who is on sprint asked me what kind of smartphone to get seeing as his contract was up, i told him just stick with sprint and get a Pre, if you don't feel that must have feeling for an iPhone, there is no reason to deal with the carrier switch hassle. He got his Pre, and since i follow all these tech blogs i showed him all the tricks i read up on it.
I know you will hate to hear this but YOU ARE the MS Paul A. Chapel.
While its tablet world topping pixel density, Tegra 2 silicon, and fresh to death OS certainly sound awesome, we had to get our grubby mitts on one to see if it's as good as its spec sheet would have us believe.
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Wow. Blogs used to be free of media bias and corporate influence. Thomas Ricker, you've just shown us that Engadget has sold out. Your bias is disgusting.
How many app download did Apple have 30 days after the first iPhone was released? Zero.
The more interesting question is, how many application downloads were there from the Apple App Store 30-days after it was opened?
I'm sorry but it is utterly ridiculous to ask how many applications were downloaded from something that didn't exist and really does not allow you to compare like with like.
Wow, that was 2 years ago. How much horsepower did a Porsche have 100 years ago? Zero.
Well shit then, I guess since my little buggy I fitted with a weed whacker motor yesterday has 3hp, Im off to a better start than Porsche!
BOOYA...EAT MY DUST!
(But seriously, your an idiot. The "but the first iPhone didnt have __________, but the Pre has it!" argument is getting a little old. )
It's may be old but it's not less legit. How can you seriously expect a phone that came out less than 3 weeks ago, and still has no official SDK out, to have what, hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of apps??
Oh and your Porsche analogy is so bad I'm not even gonna bother commenting why it's wrong on so many levels.
@Mike
It all boils down to the Apple fan attack machine desperately wants to paint the Pre as a failure.
You see, these numbers are totally fake, and by no means reflects the PATHETICLY small numbers of Pres that were sold. Also no app store, other than Apple's, could possibly garner this much usage EVER!
I mean, it not even an Apple project, so these numbers cant be real!
Without wanting to get into another boring iPhone vs. ? fight, there is no point comparing these figures to the first month of Apple's App Store. The App Store's initial success was largely based on the fact that 1st-gen iPhone owners had been waiting a year to do more on their phone than surf the web. Apple kept on marketing the iPhone as a computer, the community had jailbroken it to deploy their own apps and there was lots of expectation and frustration. The Apple hype machine (e.g. Engadget, etc.) also contributed to this by banging on about the App Store and the need for legitimate apps from day 1.
In other words, the conditions were extremely different back then. It took Apple a year to get apps to there users whereas Palm already have their marketplace setup and will have there SDK out to developers imminently. Just let them get on with the job and congratulate them for what they've done.
@Look You do realize that you are one of the few people on this site that actually attacks anyone. And you do it all the time. Its ridiculous, and i really really wish you would just get effing banned already. Everything has to be some kind of power struggle with Apple. You call all the Apple people haters, but here you are spreading your FUD again for the 2nd time just in this thread. Man you are just really really pathetic.
People with iphones don't want this phone to fail, YOU WANT PEOPLE WITH IPHONES TO THINK THAT, you really do. You see it justifies your whole existence and that is really sad. I have had an iphone since the first one came out and ive got a 3GS. When my friend who is on sprint asked me what kind of smartphone to get seeing as his contract was up, i told him just stick with sprint and get a Pre, if you don't feel that must have feeling for an iPhone, there is no reason to deal with the carrier switch hassle. He got his Pre, and since i follow all these tech blogs i showed him all the tricks i read up on it.
I know you will hate to hear this but YOU ARE the MS Paul A. Chapel.
So please, just stop with your BS, its sickening.