1.5 billion iPhone app downloads – is Palm paying attention?
iPhone can do anything... The Palm Pre has yet to show it's stuff.
Boy Genius Report and almost every other tech blog site are helping Apple with their big announcement that there have been over 1.5 billion iPhone apps downloaded.
Many of those are free, but a good portion of those apps are over $1. Is Palm noticing?
The Palm Pre has 30 apps available in their App Catalog. While several of those apps are labeled as trial versions, only the Classic app is actually limited to a 7 day trial.
PreCentral has reported that there are now more homebrew apps available to install through a hack than there are actual Palm-sponsored apps. Palm bet the farm on the Pre. What is keeping them from making some of that money back through their app store?
I will glady pay a few bucks for some good apps and games and I know that each of the other 300,000+ other Pre owners would do the same. maybe Palm is thinking that $300,000 won’t even scratch the surface.
I love the Pre, but it appears that my fears that Palm may pull another Palm move again may be coming true. They have a legacy of getting the best 90 percent right, but dropping the ball when it comes to giving their customers exactly what they want.
It is almost like they put so much effort into the research and development that they don’t have enough energy left for the follow-through.
App Store tops 1.5 billion downloads in first year : Boy Genius Report.