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Palm's App Catalog for its webOS platform has hit 1 million downloads, according to the mobile analytics and advertising company Medialets. However, the company has said it won't be drawn into an "apps race" with Apple over the number of applications available or the number of downloads.
The 1 million download mark was expected to be reached at some point this week, but the number is still fairly remarkable considering there are only some 30 applications in the App Catalog.
"We clearly have to have a product we're proud of," Mitch Allen, Palm's software chief technology officer, said in an interview with Bloomberg News. "Taking a little bit more time right now does trump the excitement that comes from having something that people can play with today."
Apple regularly touts that more than 1 billion applications have been downloaded from its App Store for the iPhone and iPod Touch since it opened last summer. Palm will publicly release the Mojo software development kit for webOS at the end of the summer.
For more:
- see this NYT article
- see this NYT blog post
- see this Bloomberg News article
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Comments
Posted by Anonymous | June 25, 2009 - 2:59pm
So on average each app was downloaded 33,333 time? Nice
-go Palm Pee, Go
Posted by Anonymous | July 23, 2009 - 8:45am
The more I read the articles from this site's writers, the more I see that you are completely partial to the iPhone. You can hardly even write an article about Palm without also mentioning the iPhone along with it.
Please try and be completely objective. Apple has put out a nice product and fiiinally opened up their SDK for apps for it. Now Palm is trying to get BACK in the mix and is doing pretty well and you guys are being [Haters].
What, do you own stock in Apple or something?
Come on, be fair. Write an article and report your findings without bias or obvious partiality.
Posted by Anonymous | July 23, 2009 - 11:13am
Like it or not, the iPhone is now the standard by which smartphones are measured against. We often make comparisons to BlackBerry when it comes to devices that are trying to compete in the enterprise space because RIM has set that standard in that area. I don't believe there is any bias in that. --Lynnette Luna
Posted by Sue Marek | July 23, 2009 - 11:14am
I don't agree with you. Our coverage is not biased. None of the editors at FierceWireless own stock in Apple, nor do we own stock in Palm. We report the news based upon our research and interviews with key sources. -- Sue
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