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http://www.precentral.net/rumor-webos-121-delayed-will-fix-itunes-sync
Rumor: webOS 1.2.1 Delayed, but Will Fix iTunes Sync

So, maybe NOT tomorrow :-(]]>Sep 23rd 2009 9:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/
Palm has to start quantifying things better than "more than we can handle" - how about a hard number?

10s? 100s? 1000s?
]]>Sep 23rd 2009 10:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/
Why is that so important. Why don't you just wait the day, or possibly the week, to find out.]]>Sep 23rd 2009 10:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/
y does Palm and other companies feel the need to approve anything?]]>Sep 23rd 2009 10:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/Sep 23rd 2009 10:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/Sep 23rd 2009 10:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/
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.]]>Sep 23rd 2009 10:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/Sep 23rd 2009 11:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/Sep 23rd 2009 12:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/
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]]>Sep 23rd 2009 1:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/
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.]]>Sep 24th 2009 10:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/Sep 23rd 2009 9:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/Sep 23rd 2009 9:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/Sep 23rd 2009 10:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/
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.]]>Sep 23rd 2009 10:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/
You can't use the WiFi to make phonecalls... can you? So how would this be a backup for a bad signal?]]>Sep 23rd 2009 10:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/
I mean personally I've got an iPhone and it's built in WiFi has saved my ass more than once in different situations.]]>Sep 23rd 2009 10:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/
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.]]>Sep 23rd 2009 10:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/Sep 23rd 2009 11:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/
waiting for the next big thing = tech geeks

getting what you want now = everyone else]]>Sep 23rd 2009 3:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/Sep 23rd 2009 9:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/Sep 23rd 2009 10:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/
Although it will be nice when dependencies are fixed and Preware can update itself.]]>Sep 23rd 2009 10:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/Sep 23rd 2009 10:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/Sep 23rd 2009 10:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/Sep 23rd 2009 10:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/Sep 23rd 2009 11:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/Sep 23rd 2009 11:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/Sep 23rd 2009 11:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/Sep 23rd 2009 3:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/Sep 23rd 2009 10:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/Sep 23rd 2009 10:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/Sep 23rd 2009 10:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/
Still, there's plenty of room to do better than Apple in terms of openness in app stores.]]>Sep 23rd 2009 11:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/
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.]]>Sep 23rd 2009 2:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/
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.]]>Sep 27th 2009 11:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/Sep 23rd 2009 10:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/Sep 23rd 2009 10:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/Sep 23rd 2009 10:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/Sep 23rd 2009 4:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/Sep 23rd 2009 7:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/Sep 23rd 2009 10:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/]]>Sep 23rd 2009 11:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/Your an idiot to even post that.]]>Sep 23rd 2009 10:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/Sep 23rd 2009 2:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/
A viable Palm Pre app store - will believe it when I see it.]]>Sep 23rd 2009 11:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/Sep 23rd 2009 10:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/Sep 23rd 2009 11:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/Sep 23rd 2009 1:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/palms-app-catalog-is-swamped-with-submissions-bursting-with-fl/Sep 23rd 2009 1:15PM