Palm's App Catalog is swamped with submissions, bursting with flavor
By Tim Stevens 
posted September 23rd 2009 9:46AM
posted September 23rd 2009 9:46AM
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What a crock.
Palm has to start quantifying things better than "more than we can handle" - how about a hard number?
10s? 100s? 1000s?
@freakin ljit
Why is that so important. Why don't you just wait the day, or possibly the week, to find out.
how about letting people submit whatever and let others download n purchase whatever....sorta like how newsgroups work now!
y does Palm and other companies feel the need to approve anything?
Do you remember how Atari failed because of absolutely shit games because of no approval process, and how Nintendo gave their "seal of approval" to all games released. Clearly, an approval process is beneficial for the consumer. Without it, all sorts of non-functional garbage would be out there.
Right before they lose their USB vendor ID for violating policy.
@Darkstar Are you really serious? If there was no approval process, then there will be.... wait for it... Malicious programs STEALING EVERY LAST BIT OF EVERY IDENTITY available, and given the palm's "synergy" features that would be pretty much all of your online identities.
Here is an example: why dont you do a search on google for free software of any kind, go to say the 45th page, and just start downloading any kind of random crap you can get your hands on, then let us know how well your computer works then.
oh snap. i forgot about those with malicious intent. sorry! hehe
Sweet. Palm will finally be getting it's own share of fart apps and flashlight apps and of course, 99.9% of the apps will be completely useless.
@ Tsing Tao: never EVER had that problem on my WinMo phone, and it's like the wild west out there when it comes to downloading ROMs, apps and enhancements.
Your snarky "go to the 45th page of google" response kind of proves how difficult it is. Most people won't DIG that far into it, and most people savvy enough to install software from the wide open onto their phones are also savvy enough to judge whether something is WORTH installing, because there's open communities that discuss them... openly...
PS: I may have used the word open, which may be confusing to someone forced to use a manufacturers app store
In all my years of using palm pilots and downloading every kind of random software, I've never had anything bad happen to my data or device. You'd be hard pressed to find anyone that ran into problems.
In my years of using winmo, randomly downloading everything was never a problem. Nor was it a problem on any of my symbian devices.
Don't buy into the reasoning big corporation give to you. It's nothing more than a way of maintaining control over your wallet and device. History has shown that mobile OS platforms have largely been free of the kind of things more indicative of desktop OS. At best, the apps would simply crash and it closes itself. At worst you might need to reboot your device due to poorly written junk. But those times were very rare.
Mobile OS are very stable. You'd need to do a lot to break it.
I know a few people that their apps through. Although a lot of people are submitting at the last minute which is probably bottle-necking the whole process.
My mom's on Sprint and was looking at the Pre but I think I'm gonna have her wait for the Palm Pre 2....cuz u know that's coming eventually. Then when it comes I'll convince her to get it. She would love a phone like this. And really with the way Sprint is structuring it's plans it's almost crazy to get a phone without data.
Have you/she seen the pixi?
Yeah I saw it but the lack of WiFi is a lil disappointing to me. I mean Sprint signal for the most part is excellent where were at but in some areas it's a lil shoddy.
And especially when you go in certain buildings. So I'd rather get her a phone that has WiFi as a backup you know?
If the Pixi did have it though it'd be at the top of the list IMO.
I'm also waiting for Sprint to release/announce a 3G AIRAVE so we can get one in the house.
"So I'd rather get her a phone that has WiFi as a backup you know?"
You can't use the WiFi to make phonecalls... can you? So how would this be a backup for a bad signal?
Umm of course not. But do you use sprint's network for just phones? Obviously not. I mean email, internet, apps, other stuff that you can do with WiFi.
I mean personally I've got an iPhone and it's built in WiFi has saved my ass more than once in different situations.
u cant make a call with wifi.
but wifi is nice to have so u can talk on phone n open a website n do stuffs on the net. sprint network doesnt let u talk and have evdo net connection simultaneously. maybe its a cdma limitation, iono.
You can make Wifi calls with Tmobile.
If you have to decide when and which phone your mom should get then shes probably not gonna care anymore about the Pre 2 than about the Pre. Just get her the Pre now and let her start enjoying this smart phone now.
waiting for the next big thing = tech geeks
getting what you want now = everyone else
Awesome!
Nice, I'd love to get the apps on precentral without going through some crazy backdoors on my phone. Cannot wait!
Preware isn't really a crazy backdoor. Plus it has many more benefits like themes.
Although it will be nice when dependencies are fixed and Preware can update itself.
@Templarian: I thought 0.9 fixed that and enabled Preware to update itself and Package Manager?
@Libb, lol for me being in the credits I should of realized that. :P
I really cant wait for more substantial apps, things that Devs will put more effort for a pay-off... well worth the wait...
Yes but wait until they are getting 10k submissions a day for months on end. It will happen, to think that palm is going to have all the resources to keep such a "professional" stature is just laughable. It is good they are doing well with it so far.
bah that comment went to the wrong place. POS comment system.
Well i can only hope for 10k / day subbmissions...
If they get 10k app submissions a day, I assume they'll be making quite a nifty profit & could hire enough new staff to handle it and/or raise some more money to pay for the increased staff. Especially with their stock at a 52 week high.
I really can't wait for the first questionable rejections. You'd be kidding yourselves if you think it won't happen.
There already has been one - however, Palm proved itself different from Apple by responding quickly and providing a viable, open reason and allowing the developer to release the app as homebrew until they are ready to accept it as an official app. As long as Palm continues to take that tack, I think any rejections will be reasonable and nothing like the mess that is the App Store approval process.
It already did happen. And it was explained by Palm very professionally. Nice try though.
If you think Palm isn't beholden to Sprint, you're kidding yourself. There will be apps rejected for reasons other than using private APIs. And things will probably get sticky then.
Still, there's plenty of room to do better than Apple in terms of openness in app stores.
@whynotthels2:
If that was the case then why did they let two Google Talk apps on the phone already? Sprint has a pick 3 that could be taken advantage of when combined with a Google Talk number. Plus with the Pixi having no wifi built in, it's going to be hard for Palm to limit any apps to WiFi only.
What a fantastic collection of rationalisations for pure hypocrisy!
This comment thread is bursting with classic examples of how seemingly intelligent people can be unaware of their own hypocrisy, and also those who recognise it but try to rationalise it away by informing us of just how Palm's app rejections are so very, very different from Apple's app rejections.
And look at the opening thread! Just two weeks ago, if you had dared suggest that Apple's control over the App Store was a good thing, you would have been pilloried, and lowest ranked instantly. (Find any story, find any pro-control comment, and just look.)
But now that Palm is also controlling their store, suddenly everyone thinks it is a good thing, and those praising control of an app store are getting highest ranked!
Um, you guys *do* realise how stupid, biased and fanboyish that kind of behaviour makes you look, right?
Stop being such complete hypocrites. Tell us what you think - either control over an apps store is a good thing, or a bad thing, for BOTH Apple and Palm. You can't have it one way for company X and the other way for company Y. One or the other, for BOTH companies.
Excellent!
I give Palm 12 months until they file for bankruptcy.
I'll give you 12 seconds to shut the hell up
I'm still here and I'm still talking, tough guy. And I just took another look at Palm's financials and based on cash burn, cash on hand and outstanding debt, I give them 10 months.
Now you only have 10 seconds to shut up.
i'm so torn. i'm looking to upgrade my phone around february and i just got on sprint last month, so i have a nice wait for that contract to expire, lol. so i don't know what phone i'm gonna get. I would definitely get the pre over the pixi, and that interview with Rubenstien (sp?) on the Engadget Show really made me lean towards Palm and webOS in general. But will sprint release an awesome Android phone before Feb.? And is WinMo Pro that much better than Standard (i have a Snap with standard now)? thank goodness i have a few months to consider things.
The Hero is coming on Oct 11th
@Outtada Kno
Your an idiot to even post that.
YO PALM, I'M REALLY HAPPY FOR YOU. I'MMA GONNA LET YOU FINISH, BUT APPLE HAS THE BEST APP STORE OF ALL TIME!
Engadget Article is swamped with adjectives, bursting with a lack of numbers.
A viable Palm Pre app store - will believe it when I see it.
yaaay!
Just when I convinced myself the Moto Sholes would be the phone for me, Palm goes and does this. At least I have a few more months to decide between the two before Verizon carries them.
A slider phone doesn't feel as solid as a candy bar with all of it's non moving parts? Shocking!
F me. That comment was for the post below.