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Well cnet seems to think that Palm will die next year (not that they're usually right), but that would mean a lack of competition. Either way, I don't see how 1000 apps is really any competition for any phone.]]>Dec 31st 2009 8:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/
How many apps did the iPhone start with?]]>Dec 31st 2009 9:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/Dec 31st 2009 9:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/
You honestly think Palm is ... competition...?

No. Google is competition. Palm/Winmo can go away and no one would notice.]]>Dec 31st 2009 10:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/
The iPhone launched with ZERO downloadable apps. Palm's meager 30 was 30 more than the iPhone had for a full year. And, by your count of 500 at the App Store's launch, Palm has doubled that in half the time WITHOUT the benefit of an already existing user base.

Apple had to be dragged, kicking and screaming, into allowing 3rd party apps. They're lucky they were so wrong.

]]>Dec 31st 2009 10:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/
Palm entered the market competing against 3GS, not iPhone 2G. Any comparisons with past models are bunk because it tends to ignore the reality in the marketplace.]]>Dec 31st 2009 10:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/
ITunes may boast over 100,000 apps but when you're talking about 200 different fart apps, 150 piano apps, 100 different flashlight apps, etc...it really isn't all that impressive. What I care about is which platform actually has the apps I'm interested in using. For me it's Windows Mobile which allows me to run my SlingPlayer app and Orb over a 3G network and that's something that not even one of those 100,000 apps can claim.]]>Jan 1st 2010 1:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/Jan 1st 2010 6:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/
Actually, I have an iPod touch that I won at a golf outing. I say that because I would have never bought one myself. So as far as me and my opinions go they are based on the fact that I have had experience with the iTunes app store.

Again...I am NOT impressed with the boasting apple does of their 100,000 apps. It's like if a headphone manufacturer claimed their ear buds reproduced sounds from 5Hz to 100,000Hz even though the human ear can only hear from approximately 15Hz to 20,000Hz. Dogs can handle three times that. The remaining 40,000 wouldn't even get a dog's attention.]]>Jan 1st 2010 1:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/100,000 apps of which the majority of them are of no use is albeit nonsensical to myself and i'm sure most of everyone else. It's not like you could fit 100,000 apps on your iPhone or any phone. I believe that apps should be produced with reason and purpose and not just because they can. Hence the useful vs plentiful argument.]]>Jan 1st 2010 5:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/

I agree with CNET's assessment of Palm. I really don't think the upper management at Palm really have an idea of how to remain competitive in the smartphone arena. Rubenstein and the rest of them think that they have the greatest product out there. They make decisions as if the demand for Palm products is the same as the demand for Apple products.]]>Jan 2nd 2010 12:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/Dec 31st 2009 7:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/
a little? most of the apps on the itunes are fluff garbage.]]>Dec 31st 2009 7:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/Dec 31st 2009 7:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/Dec 31st 2009 8:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/
Prove it.]]>Dec 31st 2009 9:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/
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http://ax.search.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/search?entity=software&media=all&restrict=true&submit=seeAllLockups&term=Fart

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;-)]]>Dec 31st 2009 10:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/The iPhone apps in this best-of list are unparalleled in contrast with the apps in other platforms:
http://gizmodo.com/tag/iphone-apps-directory/

At any rate, the more Pre apps, the better. I have nothing against the Palm and I support their cause. The more Palm, Google, RIM and Apple succeed, the more nails land in the coffin of WinMo.]]>Dec 31st 2009 11:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/
Holy crap... that's almost 600 fart apps!

So what you're saying is that *most* of the iPhone app store is, in fact, fart apps.

Oh wait...

]]>Dec 31st 2009 11:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/
Sorry, I didn't realize the usefulness of an app was dictated by you your highness. Going forward I will surely seek your approval as to whether or not you find the app I'm about to download to be useful to me. ]]>Dec 31st 2009 11:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/Dec 31st 2009 11:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/
I think you're dead on. It's the number of useful apps vs. the number of total apps. But odds are if the iPhone has 100x the number apps webOS does, it probably has more useful apps as well. But then again you have more junk apps to sort through to find the real treasures.

But webOS has a lot of unique features that will allow its apps to really shine now that more and more developers are jumping into the webOS bandwagon.

It's funny that this article was released today because coincidentally my webOS app, GeoStrings, was released in the catalog today and helped to contribute to this almost-milestone. One example of a unique feature that webOS has that the iPhone does not is background processing. GeoStrings is a task manager that is location-based. It runs in the background and notifies the user when they reach a certain distance from a target location. Apps like this are simply not possible on the iPhone (via the official Apple app store).

So the webOS platform has a lot of potential and I think in the coming year we'll start to see its potential being tapped into.]]>Dec 31st 2009 11:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/Jan 1st 2010 1:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/
Try finding a Mobile SlingPlayer app that will connect to my SlingBox and stream my video content over the 3G network. You'll find the app but it doesn't need an app store. I run it on two of my Windows Mobile devices. Having said that I'm really not a big fan of the Windows Mobile app store...I prefer the Kinoma app store.]]>Jan 1st 2010 1:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/Dec 31st 2009 7:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/Dec 31st 2009 8:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/
Than they would probably need to wait a couple of months more and other news websites already posted it they don't wanna be left out im guessing.]]>Dec 31st 2009 8:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/
I don't understand why people get so emotionally attached to phones, its just a phone if you don't like it then don't get thats really enough said.]]>Dec 31st 2009 8:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/Dec 31st 2009 9:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/
Here is the reason: The headline contains the actual number of 946, so it is pretty clear what the actual number is. What everyone should focus on is the fact that 6+ months after the Palm Pre is released, and 3+ months after the App Catalog was opened, there are virtually 1,000 applications now available for the Palm Pre smart phone. ]]>Dec 31st 2009 9:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/
by new years 2011 palm will be a sad footnote in history, a tale of how not to run a market leading company and ultimately be forced into closing down shop after wasting several hundreds of millions of Bono's hard earned dollars.

palms best hope at this point is being bought out by Nokia or Dell... and that isnt much to hope for]]>Jan 1st 2010 12:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/
Bono wipes his ass with a wad of ben franklins, I'm sure he has little interest in what Palm has done with his money.
]]>Jan 1st 2010 12:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/Jan 1st 2010 10:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/Dec 31st 2009 7:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/hello,the iphone has liek so many useful apps and games.
i mean, it just blows me away!
BLOWS me away!
/sarcasm]]>Dec 31st 2009 7:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/
Too bad there's no App that actually BLOWS you.]]>Dec 31st 2009 7:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/
That said, not all of the iPhone Apps are crap, as many have said before. Some are very well done. Just gotta find the hidden gems.]]>Dec 31st 2009 8:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/Dec 31st 2009 8:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/
i agree, most of my friends have ipod touches, and i havent seen any good apps. there is maybe a few good apps for the iphone that you need to pay for but thats it. most of the apps are 2-d games, picture apps, joke apps, noise making apps or a 3-d app with "buttons" in the corners of the screen. not much to brag about. plus i can play all of those games on addictingames.com anyways ]]>Dec 31st 2009 8:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/Dec 31st 2009 8:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/
A thousand apps? Weak and puny!]]>Dec 31st 2009 8:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/It's great that you spent 3 minutes creating your name just to be a douche, but personally I don't give a flying fuck. And I don't many other people do as well. Go away and stop spamming you're incoherent hate. ]]>Dec 31st 2009 8:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/im his successor, Paul B Chapel.]]>Dec 31st 2009 9:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/
Please deny/remove such names: "PalmIsG...."

...it is a denigration of the Palm brand!]]>Dec 31st 2009 9:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/
Dead wrong. Apple does not tell developers what apps to create. Try again.]]>Dec 31st 2009 10:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/
Funny how some people try to pretend that, because it's Apple's, having the largest app library catalog of any app store is somehow a fault.

I'll let you in on a hint. Gizmodo publishes a list of best iPhone apps each month and they're quite amazing. Here you go, best of '09 edition:
http://gizmodo.com/5436652/gizmodos-essential-iphone-apps-the-best-of-2009?skyline=true&s=i

Happy downloading :)]]>Dec 31st 2009 10:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/
I agree. I don't know why people think that more choice is a bad thing.

All it proves is that more developers are making apps for the iPhone... instead of other platforms.]]>Dec 31st 2009 11:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/
... and by the way, my name isnt denigrating the "palm name", palm's sad attempts at smartphones is denigrating to a name that hasnt been worth much for many years]]>Jan 1st 2010 12:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/31/palm-app-catalog-hits-1-000-apps-okay-946/
Please, do not take what I say out of context.]]>Jan 1st 2010 2:12AM